In the last few days, the corporate media has gone in a slight frenzy due to the announcement of the mega-rich man, owner of Amazon, Washington Post and Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, that he will join the first crew that will fly into space with his rocket on July 20.

The billionaire used this chance to ask his younger brother, Mark Bezos, to join the flight. You can’t really invent the reaction – people immediately insisted on banning his re-entry to Earth’s atmosphere! No, really, the have organized a petition already signed by more than 16,000 people!

What’s all the fuss? Weren’t there many in space already? Including women, some dogs…

…and some extremely brave pigs:

So what’s the pig deal? I mean big deal. Was the reason cover-up of a real Bezos’ business? Or a quite funny IRS leak?

Or is there something else? Since Bezos posted his announcement on June 7th, and the media felt the ‘sensation’ only ten days later, did maybe this story serve to hide something bigger in the same media? For example, the great success of a competing force – the news that China has sent the first three astronauts to its new Tiangong space station:

I must be exaggerating after all. People in the media are probably just sorry for a poor billionaire who can no longer live among the ungrateful people…

What do you think?