TIME is no more. Just sold to a Koch Bros. entity. Cancelling my subscription...if I had one.

[sadiegirl]

Enough is enough.

[stopbush]

1. Their first issues cover will be a reprint of tRumps fake cover.

That will legitimize the cover as no longer being fake.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. really important that people know about this sale to Kochs. n/t

[FarCenter]

3. "if I had one" - That's Time's basic problem - paid circulation down to 3 million, advertisers fled

Available free to waiting rooms everywhere...

[SummerSnow]

4. They are taking over the media , slowly but surely.

[BigmanPigman]

5. I get three mags and Time is one of them.

I guess I will not renew my subscription. Shit AND FUCK THE KOCHS!

[kstewart33]

6. Time has had a problem with subscriptions.

Now they will contend with a tsunami of cancellations.

[rockfordfile]

7. yeah that's the end. Everybody knows about Koch Bros being un-American

[TheBlackAdder]

14. Perhaps Time will teach taxpayers how to dodge US taxes and park money in Luxemboug, like the Kochs.

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https://www.icij.org/investigations/luxembourg-leaks/new-leak-reveals-luxembourg-tax-deals-disney-koch-brothers-empire/

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-luxembourg-tax-disney-idUSKBN0JO06220141210

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/12/10/disney-and-koch-industries-delay-not-avoid-taxes-through-luxembourg/

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[dalton99a]

8. R.I.P. Time, National Geographic, etc.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. $2.8 BILLION all CASH sale.

Cash. they have billions in cash sitting around. Offshore, most likely. While there are many thousands of homeless people in post-hurricane Houston/East Texas, and Fla. And esp. Puerto Rico.

[awesomerwb1]

10. How come Dem leaners don't buy

newspapers, or media in general?

[lunamagica]

11. That is what I was going to ask

[Hortensis]

13. How do you know they don't? The big 6 are

giant corporations, of course, with the self-serving wiring of all giant corporations.

But Jeff Bezos, to name one, isn't a knuckle-dragger. Even if he considers himself libertarian, most of his donations have been to Democrats and the WaPo's been doing okay under him--so far, less hostile to Democrats than the NY Times has become.

I have a question for everyone it's appropriate for: Why do you tune in to those conservative corporate offerings on the boob tube and soak up their right-wing lies and fake equalizations about US, about our candidates and party?

GE owns NBC. Time-Warner owns CNN.

Those who do shouldn't fool themselves for a moment that the big-money psych ops aren't affecting them. We see their message every day in hundreds of posts here.

[awesomerwb1]

15. Well, if they do...

maybe they should start buying radio stations, although there probably is no market for non right winger content.

Tie is one magazine I would've thought a mega rich Dem would buy.

[Hortensis]

17. Time's failing. It would make sense if its value was as a propaganda

vehicle. That would explain why right-wing extremists wanted it and liberal billionaires don't.

Again, blasting the false equalization pushed at us from all sides, there are huge differences between liberals and hard-core conservatives.

[workinclasszero]

12. Pussy grabber Dumpf

will be Time's Man of the Year in 2018 I bet.

[TomSlick]

16. I've had a Time subscription since high school - which was a long time ago.

I think I'll wait and see what happens but I'm not optimistic. I'll cancel my subscription at the first whiff a the Koch sibs changing the magazine.

[grantcart]

18. fucking hell

Well at least it's nice to know they will lose billions on it.

Washington Times is now 2 billion in the hole.