Will CNN be sold to FOX News?

[Jefferson]

Media Matters Head ‘Terrified” CNN Will Be Sold To Fox News​

The head of Media Matters For America is “terrified” that CNN will sell to Fox News, leaving the Murdoch owned business in charge of a major swath of news coverage.

Many Democrats have been sounding the alarm as CNN has made a noted shift to becoming more centrist in its coverage.

The Media Matters head, Angelo Carusone spoke to SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah on Friday to voice his concerns,” Mediaite reported.


“Thing I really am afraid of is that it is honesty that they sell to Rupert Murdoch. I’m terrified of this. It is super, it is his white whale and I think that it doesn’t fit into Discovery’s portfolio in a meaningful way. I’ve always been afraid of this, and the posture of making the platform more appealing, more attractive, more neutral, I think weakens it enough that they say, ‘Look, it’s just not worth it. We didn’t get the returns on investment. It hasn’t turned the corner yet.’ You know, I don’t think they’re going to get the audience gains that they think they’re going to get, which is part of the strategy. And that’s a real problem, too. So at its core, I’m afraid that in the short term, we see some bad coverage out of them, some spots of bad coverage which actually have bigger harms when it comes from CNN. And then bigger… But longer term, I think that it actually weakens the business model of CNN enough that it makes them more susceptible to just being spun off. And that’s not great either,” he said.

“That’s interesting, I never thought about that last one…,” the host said.

“So I don’t think people realize how often Rupert Murdoch tries to buy CNN. It happens all the time. He did it and he made a really aggressive, year-long plus play in 2017 and a run at it in 2014. He’s made runs I did during the early 2000, and that matters because that’s how we got the Wall Street Journal. He tried to buy it half a dozen times before it, before he eventually convinced the Bancrofts, which were the owners of the Wall Street Journal, to sell it. So I don’t think it’s it’s insane or too far gone to say, nah, this guy doesn’t need to finance if he’s sitting on a mountain of cash that was supposed to be used and is earmarked for media acquisitions, they haven’t used it yet. It’s just I mean, there’s a mountain of cash. He doesn’t need the financing. He can pay for the deal in cash. He can overpay, which is what Rupert Murdoch always does. He always overpays, always, because he knows that it’s easier,” he said.

 

[Clete]

Media Matters Head ‘Terrified” CNN Will Be Sold To Fox News​

The head of Media Matters For America is “terrified” that CNN will sell to Fox News, leaving the Murdoch owned business in charge of a major swath of news coverage.

Many Democrats have been sounding the alarm as CNN has made a noted shift to becoming more centrist in its coverage.

The Media Matters head, Angelo Carusone spoke to SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah on Friday to voice his concerns,” Mediaite reported.


“Thing I really am afraid of is that it is honesty that they sell to Rupert Murdoch. I’m terrified of this. It is super, it is his white whale and I think that it doesn’t fit into Discovery’s portfolio in a meaningful way. I’ve always been afraid of this, and the posture of making the platform more appealing, more attractive, more neutral, I think weakens it enough that they say, ‘Look, it’s just not worth it. We didn’t get the returns on investment. It hasn’t turned the corner yet.’ You know, I don’t think they’re going to get the audience gains that they think they’re going to get, which is part of the strategy. And that’s a real problem, too. So at its core, I’m afraid that in the short term, we see some bad coverage out of them, some spots of bad coverage which actually have bigger harms when it comes from CNN. And then bigger… But longer term, I think that it actually weakens the business model of CNN enough that it makes them more susceptible to just being spun off. And that’s not great either,” he said.

“That’s interesting, I never thought about that last one…,” the host said.

“So I don’t think people realize how often Rupert Murdoch tries to buy CNN. It happens all the time. He did it and he made a really aggressive, year-long plus play in 2017 and a run at it in 2014. He’s made runs I did during the early 2000, and that matters because that’s how we got the Wall Street Journal. He tried to buy it half a dozen times before it, before he eventually convinced the Bancrofts, which were the owners of the Wall Street Journal, to sell it. So I don’t think it’s it’s insane or too far gone to say, nah, this guy doesn’t need to finance if he’s sitting on a mountain of cash that was supposed to be used and is earmarked for media acquisitions, they haven’t used it yet. It’s just I mean, there’s a mountain of cash. He doesn’t need the financing. He can pay for the deal in cash. He can overpay, which is what Rupert Murdoch always does. He always overpays, always, because he knows that it’s easier,” he said.

Do you think that Murdock buying CNN would be a bad thing or a good thing?

Almost no one watches CNN so I don't even understand how they're still in business in the first place.

 

[Jefferson]

Do you think that Murdock buying CNN would be a bad thing or a good thing?

Almost no one watches CNN so I don't even understand how they're still in business in the first place.

If CNN reverted back to their old format in the 90's with those unbiased 30 minute headline news shows, I would watch CNN every day.

 

[Bradley D]

I switch back and forth between FOX and CNN to get both views.

 

[Jefferson]

Maybe Elon Musk will buy CNN.

 

[Jefferson]

I would keep Don Lemon and have him just read the news straight like a real journalist without being allowed to pollute the show with his own commentary.

This way I would get to form a betting pool on how long he would last before he snapped.

 

[Right Divider]

I switch back and forth between FOX and CNN to get both views.

You mean truth and error?
Are there only two views?

 

[TomO]

Network news...I remember network news.

Hey look Martha...The locals are discussing network news, just like in the olden days...Isn't that quaint?

 

[Bradley D]

You mean truth and error?
Are there only two views?

There are many views! I take them all with a grain of salt!

 

[Clete]

If CNN reverted back to their old format in the 90's with those unbiased 30 minute headline news shows, I would watch CNN every day.

There was never a time when CNN had anything that was unbiased.

It wasn't as bad in the 90s as it is today but to call it unbiased is a stretch.

Actually, the whole idea of "unbiased" gives more credence to the left than they deserve. It presumes that they might be right. They aren't. Everything they do, say or even think is either flatly false, based on a falsehood or an is outright intentional lie. A news cast that was dedicated to the actual truth, in the normal rational sense of the word, would be condemned as "racist", "fascist", "ulra right wind" or whatever other derogatory term the left has polled and discovered turns people's stomach at the moment.

 

[Clete]

I switch back and forth between FOX and CNN to get both views.

You find profit in getting a view that is openly, demonstrably and intentionally false? Why?

Do you read both the bible and Koran?

Do you listen to both the Baptist preacher and the Mormon?

Do you give equal time to both employers and thieves?

Do you hold the thinker and the fool on equal ground?

Anyone who keeps CNN on their TV for more than ten seconds at a time, except to expose it for the fountain of lies and foolishness that it is, is himself a liar and a fool. You'd better wake up to the fact that the people on CNN, and others like them, want to destroy this country, and that is no overstatement. If you decided not to pick a side, you're the worst sort of human being.

“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.​

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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.” - Ayn Rand​

Clete

 

[Bradley D]

As I wrote I take everything with a grain of salt. I also have the Koran. I read about other religions to understand them. When in the Navy as an Intell Specialist I study the enemies ships/planes and not our own. It is good to have an understanding of what one is dealing with in this world. I trust the Word of God. Because by living the Word I have found it to be true! People without God are more liable to lie to get what they want and believe it is all right to do so.

 

[Clete]

As I wrote I take everything with a grain of salt. I also have the Koran. I read about other religions to understand them. When in the Navy as an Intell Specialist I study the enemies ships/planes and not our own. It is good to have an understanding of what one is dealing with in this world. I trust the Word of God. Because by living the Word I have found it to be true! People without God are more liable to lie to get what they want and believe it is all right to do so.

There is no profit in listening to a known fool. There is no tactical advantage to giving ear to lies. The mere fact that you can tolerate listening to more than 15 seconds of CNN is evidence of a flaw in your character. The fact that you hold Fox News on equal footing with CNN is proof of it. Not that Fox News is super great or anything but CNN is as close to smelling Satan's own breath as you can get this side of Hell. There simply is no comparison between the two at all. Fox has it's flaws but there is at least some attempt to be something other than a propaganda machine for the socialists who want literally to destroy the country you likely risked your life for while in the Navy. They are, in fact, a domestic enemy. They hate the constitution and they hate most everything this country is supposed to be. How you can tolerate it is simply beyond my comprehension.