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(37,392 posts)I like it!
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)JHB
(37,163 posts)RW talk radio, evangelical Christian stations, cable networks, etc.
Conservatives have a long habit of pouring money into media that supports them, liberals and centrists don't. And the C's are already used to feeling under siege... they've nursed that bitterness for decades.
They won't just collapse. They need to be politically torn apart. Find wedges and hammer them, dig up their dirty secrets and figure out how to best use them for maximum effect.
It ain't nice, but they haven't been nice for decades, and wishing they were has given them the space to get ever worse.
elfin
(6,262 posts)DVR every night to watch during morning coffee along with Colbert. Just watch the show beginnings unless there is a guest I want to see (rarely,)
A good way to start the day before dipping into the latest crap headlines.
fierywoman
(7,702 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)and start up a real progressive cable news network to compete with the 3 right wing cable news networks we have now. It would blow Fox, CNN, and MSNBC out of the water.
quakerboy
(13,923 posts)That would go entirely against his interests.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,352 posts)mitch96
(13,938 posts)Duppers
(28,130 posts)Faux Channel.
lark
(23,182 posts)1 Repug channel - Faux
1 sometimes liberal channel - MSNBC
If Bezos bought Faux and Murdoch started Faux #2, we'd still be way ahead and 2 to 1.
ProfessorGAC
(65,335 posts)Not that Bezos is going to do any such thing, but he's smart enough to add a 10 year no-compete clause.
Duppers
(28,130 posts)He would. Thanks.
mia
(8,363 posts)he could buy the Sinclair Broadcast Group and Clear Channel to stop all of the right-wing hate radio programs.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Hopefully a cheap brand! If you tell me you spit out Makers I will mourn.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Elijah Craig Small Batch 1789 !!
Last month it was BULLEIT..
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)But what you spit on the keyboard is a good choice. And may have been worth more than the keyboard!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)It was the end of the Elijah Craig.
😂
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)To celebrate the election of the next Democratic President.
stonecutter357
(12,698 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)Please Mr. Bezos, buy it!
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)House of Roberts
(5,192 posts)They're losing them faster than they can corrupt new ones. No good businessman would take it on now. Why do you think Clear Channel was bought by Bain Capital? For the purpose of looting it until it dies in massive debt. It isn't worth the sum of its parts now.
Traildogbob
(8,868 posts)After the tax fraud blows up in their faces, as is becoming very clear it will, they will be dropping faster than Lindsay Graham at a truck stop.
quakerboy
(13,923 posts)If Bezos bought Fox, they would pretty much stay the same, except turn on Trump. Aint a mouthpiece on there, except maybe Hannity, who wouldnt go along for a small pay bump.
UpInArms
(51,289 posts)Sucked ... was never able to get past her right wing fucknuttery
Locrian
(4,522 posts)summer_in_TX
(2,767 posts)The super wealthy funders of the whole right wing propaganda system won't let it be taken apart, unfortunately, since they've worked so hard to get it to where they are now. I wish we could break it up, but think it'll take a lot more than Bezos to even begin to get a handle on the issue.
Documentaries, congressional testimony, academic research on history and impact on society, blue-ribbon commission, indictments, new laws, an end to Citizens United, major organizing, mass protests
wish we had the luxury of focusing on the issue of systemic propaganda and the ways consent is manufactured in the U.S.
In a perfect world, the Mueller investigation would reveal a lot of the threads.
aidbo
(2,328 posts)I do not think he should own a cable news channel as well.
Gothmog
(145,794 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)That would be expensive, even for Bezos. I'm guessing, just a guess, that Fox News could go for maybe $50 Billion? $40 Billion? More?
Bezos is worth maybe $112B, I read. But much of that would be assets that are not cash. And that's not profit from income less expenses.