Illon Musk’s use for X Mimics Hears’s and Ford’s Media of Media

The businessman who revolutionized the car’s business decides that he now needs to change the way the world thinks, so he buys a media property to use as a miscarriage. Check the validity of the worst pulses of many people while encouraging democracy enemies all over the world.

This looks like Elon Musk and its location on social media X in 2025, but it was also Henry Ford and his paper, Derborn Independent, in the twenties of the twentieth century. Ford, the Tuna Inventor, bought weekly suburbs and prepared it to pay its anti -Semitic views. Derborn Independent has published a long -term series called “International Jew”, which blamed Jews in the world, and published “Zion’s elders protocols”, a trick document. The Nazis gave Ford a medal.

Ford might have been a flagrant example of a long tradition of moguls who bought media platforms and then used them to enhance hateful views. I have often used the latest technology to reach the largest audience, whether it is high -speed newspaper, or in the case of Ford, its network of the auto agent.

Wand on your new style and there will be Dearborn Independent On the seat. The newspapers were at the time the local companies. With the agents, Derborn Independent has become one of the highest in the country, with more than 750,000 copies of each case at its peak.

The biggest difference between Ford and other media soles like Robert Murdoch was that the latter generally promoted their views by employing editors and similar anchors in thinking. Derborn Independ on its cover announced that it is “Ford International Weekly”, and included a full editorial article signed by Ford.

Mr. Musk’s actions indicate a return to Ford’s personal approach. Tesla and Spacex billionaire published enthusiastically and republished and supported them on incorrect or inflammatory allegations that social security is fraudulent, and that Democrats are importing migrants to win the elections and that federal rulers rule against the Trump administration must be isolated.

There is a lot of precedents for what Mr. Musk does with X. But he moved the process to an unimaginable level even for a short time. The site says it has 220 million followers, which is impossible to verify it. Even if it is only a small part of this number, X has been improved to detonate its owner’s posts as widely as possible. People see them and hear about them.

It seems that the purchase of Mr. Musk worth $ 44 billion when Twitter in 2022 was initially wrong, even for him. Then it was seen as a billionaire game. In the elections last year, it became a weapon. He used his political views to form an alliance with Donald J. Trump, who then benefited from him to put himself in the government explicitly to close as much as possible.

Rewards still reveal. But for Mr. Musk, it was a clear victory. In the name of government competence, the organizers who were in a position allowed them to supervise his empire. Mr. Musk now has a more free hand with his cars and missiles. (X spokesperson did not make a comment.)

“This is like anything we have seen at all,” said Rick Perlstein, author of the “Modern American Conservative Cronkl”. The historian added that Mr. Musk’s frequent use of themes and images: “It is the policy of the nervous system, not the higher functions in the brain. There is no argument, only a fear of promotion.”

Houses in the United States and Britain have owned the media for the purpose of exercising influence since the creation of the modern newspaper in the late nineteenth century. During the First World War, Viscount Northcliffe dominated Britain on about 40 percent of morning trading and 45 percent of the evening blood circulation there. Its characteristics included Daily Mail, read by the working class and the times, which the elites read.

Viscount, whose name was Alfred Harmsworth, played a decisive role in depositing Prime Minister Herbert Askwith in December 1916. Winston Churchill wrote that the press Baron “is looking to have a leadership impact on events.” The Viscount Northclife’s influence on the war was so great that the Germans sent warships to assassinate him in 1917, when they bombed his home on the beach.

In the United States, control of the media was often more than a local phenomenon. In West Texas in the early sixties of the last century, the Whittenburg Ultraconservate family had Amarillo Daily News, NBC TV and the dominant radio station. There were a few competing voices.

Jeff Roche, the historian who wrote “the conservative border”, an upcoming study of the region’s policy. “Amarillo has become the most right -wing city in America.”

“The ownership of the media and political influence has gone side by side since the first days of the newspaper industry,” said Simon Potter, a professor of modern history at the University of Bristol, who studies the media. “For a long time, people were concerned about this intimate relationship between the media and politics – would the public interest really serve?”

Behind this question is another: Does loudspeakes really give them strength, or is he screaming in a vacuum? An American pioneer provides Mr. Musk – William Randolph Hurst – an answer. Hurst, the owner of New York magazine, sent correspondents to Cuba in 1897 to cover the war with Spain. His interests were less human than promotional. He was in a circulation war.

One copy of how this Hurst story turned on as comprehensive media:

The magazine’s correspondents discovered that there was no war. “Everything is quiet”, Friedrich Remington, photographer of the paper, Kabul Hurst. “There will be no war.” They wanted to leave.

Hurst replied, “Please stay. You are presenting the pictures and I will present the war.” Then he raised his move in his papers for the war in which President William McKinley began in a short time. Cuba has liberated and gained the valuable parts of the United States of the Spanish Empire.

The story was first published in a book by a colleague of James Krillman from Hurst, and later immortalized in “Citizen Kane” by Orson Wales. It has been completely exposed over the years. There was no evidence that Hurst said at all that he would provide a war. Correspondents found a lot to clarify. But the story continued because it showed a strong pole that it could get wars out of nothing.

When Hurst tried to move from his wartime endeavors to advance his political career, he stumbled. He got a seat in the House of Representatives in 1902, but he offers to become the mayor of New York twice. He lost the 1906 campaign for the position of New York Governor as well.

David Nassau, who wrote “President: William Randolph Hurst”, believes that Mr. Musk’s use of X to the footnote to the footnote is the illusion like the presumed creation of the war.

“I haven’t seen anywhere that Twitter is coming out of the Maga vote,” he said.

Hurst, from the point of view of Mr. NASO, reflected the feelings of his readers instead of their leadership. But the historian agreed that something new was happening with Mr. Musk. Hurst, Ford, and even Visunt Northcliffe and the other British press princes before World War II had something common to end them in the end.

“They were outside the room screaming,” said Mr. Nassau. “Twitter was important for Musk but only to enter it inside the room, to the government. It is unique at home and abroad without any restrictions on his behavior. There was nothing like that.”

Tesla sales drowned. Hurst and Ford could warn Mr. Musk: flirting with controversy with hateful opinions is bad for your reputation and is usually bad for your work as well.

Ford was prosecuted for defaming Derborn Independent and became the subject of the boycott. He closed the paper in 1927, although he did not repent of his views. A stain remained.

Hurst climbed against President Franklin de Roosevelt in the 1930s, and put his anti -Rosephille stations on the first page of his papers. When the opening articles became increasingly offensive, readers had to choose: Who would we support, the president or publisher?

“They chose Roosevelt,” said Mr. Nasaw. “This means that Hurst destroyed himself in the end and his newspapers.”