Now that you are grieving about #JeffBezos & the #WashingtonPost:
How about taking the opportunity to start a #reader-owned #newspaper #cooperative or an #audience-owned #media cooperative!?
Plenty of examples exist; several of them in #Germany alone.
I'd very much be interested to partake.
🏷️ #WaPo #Bezos #AllThePresidentsMen #JonathanCapeheart #BobWoodward #CarlBernstein #Watergate #Nixon #Trump #MAGA #HowFascismWorks #Amazon #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #Musk #Zuckerberg #Distributism #Coop
Several noted #european #newspapers and #magazines (online & paper) are held by #cooperatives, like #taz, #Krautreporter or #nd:
🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Tageszeitung
🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krautreporter
🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neues_Deutschland
#PublicBroadcasting may also be membership-based, not only in the US.
E.g., the #swiss version of #PBS is a network of #audience associations and audience #cooperative|s.
(Public broadcasting in Germany follows the #BBC model, thus it's not membership-based.)
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#Cooperatives can do big things — Among the largest #software businesses in Germany is a client #cooperative of #TaxConsultant|s & #Lawyer|s.
<irony> Since they run a coop, I guess they are all communists. </irony>
This #CoOp has a yearly #revenue of about 1 billion EUR:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATEV
The #EuropeanUnion (or rather the #EuropeanEconomicArea, #EEA) has an internationalized version of #cooperatives named #SCE for #SocietasCooperativaEuropaea.
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Stephen Dioxide 
