Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump’s America. The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.

In other words, this is a further confirmation that the US is not a democracy and a plutocracy in practice, with the uber, uber rich controlling policy by controlling the media.

The world is currently being run into the ground by a bunch of senior citizens who aren’t going to be around to watch the fires they are starting.

It doesn’t matter how much the right wing buy up media. People still do, and will think that media has a “left wing bias.” It will always be the “left wing media” to blame.