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Rupert Murdoch is said to be interested in buying CNN – which, if true, could prove to be an interesting development given Mr Murdoch's reported close association with Donald Trump, who has repeatedly railed against the network.
The news comes after reports saying Mr Trump's administration may force AT&T to ditch the network to receive antitrust approval of its $85.4bn deal with Time Warner.
According to Reuters, Mr Murdoch called AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson twice in the last six months and talked about CNN.
One of the outlet's sources said Mr Murdoch offered to buy CNN in both conversations, while another source said the 86-year-old executive chairman of Twenty-First Century Fox had "zero interest" in owning the network.
It would not be the first time Mr Murdoch has expressed interest in taking over CNN.
Donald Trump fucking hates CNN, so if Murdoch could neuter the cable news network that would give him quite a lot of control over Trump's presidency.
Probably almost enough to rival Vladimir Putin's control over the Trump presidency.
However if this purchase were to happen, and Murdoch turned CNN into Fox-lite, it would quickly start to lose viewers at an accelerated clip.
Of course CNN going out of business would probably not break Trump's heart either.
Back in March, I reported: "Murdoch wants the planned acquisition of the rival entertainment conglomerate Time Warner by telecommunications giant AT&T tempered by federal regulators or lawyers, if not killed"
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Murdoch And Trump, An Alliance Of Mutual Interest
ReplyDeletehttps://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/14/520080606/murdoch-and-trump-an-alliance-of-mutual-interest
Choose your leaders
ReplyDeletewith wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be lied to.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Octavia_Butler
Thanks, 60 million Americans -- you own this.
DeleteProgressives tried to warn you, but we also ignored you, mocked and belittled you until your anger overwhelmed your good reason. We all own this.
And the 90 million who didn't vote? How do you feel now? Continued apathy or cynicism?
Will the 2018 election mean anything different for you? Will you realize democracy is fragile and has to be fought for?
Gerrymandering state governments, corrupt polling officials, and voter suppressionists, liars, weak Congressional enablers -- why did/do you support this regime?
Electoral College members -- you could have voted differently (or were you threatened as we have heard?)
So many long-brewing factors led to this, but what is the path out of this? Getting rid of Trump is like masking the symptoms, not eliminating the causes -- the racism, the hate, fear of the Other, basic human nature, loss of white majority? -- with a country armed to the teeth...
If I believed in a God, I would pray, but it's not an outside source (no hero like 1/2 of America thought Trump would be) that's going to make the difference, it's each one of us -- remembering life before such division. An enlightenment takes will -- I don't know if Americas have it or want it anymore: a failed democracy may be all she wrote.
Do pray--for guidance and strength, from wherever it may come. For all you've said above is true.
DeleteHe who controls the media controls the people.
ReplyDeleteOT? "Why we wear poppies
ReplyDeleteIn the spring of 1915, shortly after losing a friend in Ypres, Canadian doctor Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae was inspired by the sight of poppies growing in battle-scarred fields to write the now famous poem
In Flanders Fields. "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/what-is-armistice-day-why-do-we-wear-poppies-and-when-is-remembr/
Gimme, gimme, gimme. Y
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of a$$.
"Turns out that -- surprise! -- the Bush Plan for Iraq was also the Trump Plan for America.
ReplyDeleteDecapitate the government"
"[Vice President Dick] Cheney was chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company from 1995 to 2000 and has received stock options from Halliburton. In the run-up to the Iraq war, Halliburton was awarded a $7 BILLION contract for which only Halliburton was allowed to bid."
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/11/remember-bush-plan-iraq
' Bush aides were found in contempt of Congress for not complying with subpoenas in the U.S. attorney firings investigation, but no punishment was handed down.'
https://www.snopes.com/g-w-bush-lost-22-million-e-mails/
Hasn’t Murdoch done enough to damage this country???
ReplyDeleteAll the employees at CNN must be near to having heart attacks over this news. God forbid the takeover! More control of the media? That is not what we need in America!
ReplyDeleteImpeach Trump - reasons abound for doing so! Get your butts in gear Republicans in the U.S. Congress!
O/T
ReplyDelete"John McCain
@SenJohnMcCain
There's nothing "America First" about taking the word of KGB colonel over US intelligence community. There's no "principled realism" in cooperating w/ Russia to prop up murderous Assad regime. To believe otherwise is naive & places nat'l security at risk. "
McCain grabbed his integrity.
GeorgiaPeach
Has the tumor rewired his brain?
DeleteI'd guess imminent mortality.
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That would leave me with only one source of information - MSNBC. When that is neutered, I will once again dwell on how glad I am to be old, as US Democracy does a Titanic.
ReplyDeleteWell, Sebastian Gorka has been hired by Fox News so I'm not surprised. Trump is well on his way to compiling his own state controlled media empire via his alt-right Deplorables.
ReplyDeleteThey'll get themselves a tidy little monopoly and once their FCC stooge rescinds net neutrality there will be no way to get the truth and debunk the lies. It will be fake news all the time.