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People are calling for Bloomberg to buy Fox News
It would be great if he did it, but I don't think it's for sale.
https://www.newsweek.com/michael-blo...x-news-1470792 Quote:
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Does anyone think the people watching Fox would believe the broadcasts afterward? With a rich Jewish owner?
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Maybe not, but they also wouldn't be being fed a constant stream of lies.
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For fun, Bloomberg buys Faux and keeps Hannity et al for comedic effect. Hilarity ensues.
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I wonder if this is even a remote possibility.
Even if Murdoch would name a price that's less than Bloomberg's total assets*, Murdoch could simply move all his fascist stars to another channel---which all the FoxNews viewers would then flock to. Result: Murdoch is now richer, and the brainwashed go on being brainwashed. *Normally Bloomberg wouldn't have to pay cash for an acquisition---but if the idea is to de-right-wingify FoxNews, then potential lenders and investors would no longer have confidence that it would be profitable. So Bloomberg might not be able to put together a deal using other people's money---he might have to use his own. |
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Pipe dreams.
1. There's no hint they want to sell. 2. Even if Bloomberg did buy, it wouldn't happen in time for the Election 3. Even if it somehow COULD they'd get wrapped up in federal approval that we'd all be old and gray by the time it happened |
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OK, fight my ignorance and tell me why this could not happen.
AIUI, Fox News is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fox Co., which is a publicly traded company. The Murdoch family has 39% of he voting power. If Bloomberg News made an offer to buy Fox Co. at a certain per share price, wouldn't Fox Co. be obligated to present the offer to shareholders for a vote? If the price offered was high enough, isn't there a possibility that the shareholders would agree to the buy-out? |
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If I owned Faux Noise, I'd put the talents of the most egregious BS artists to appropriate use -- Hannity doing UFO/Bigfoot/MoonFake/etc "exposes", Pirro doing point-by-point explanations of legal arguments asserting that you don't have to pay taxes if you write your name in ALL-CAPS, etc.
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Complete Jewish control of the media. Guess I can stop my monthly dues to the Elders of Zion.
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Bloomberg buys Fox news, and tries to turn it into Another CNN.
Ratings tank, Hannity, Tucker, and the other popular hosts jump ship and along with some rich backers start another rival network. It quickly rises in the ratings, surpassing the old Fox News. Bloomberg loses some sofa change for him, and everything continues as it was. The reason FOX is popular is because it's the only alternative to the liberal slant on the other networks. Make it another liberal network, and you're just going to split the existing viewers of the other liberal networks. Meanwhile, those millions of FOX viewers will be desperately looking for another conservative news source. Also, having a rich billionaire buy the only conservative network in order to suppress conservative thought will just enrage and activate the people who like FOX just the way it is, many of whom already believe liberals are trying to control the news. Feed into that at your electoral peril. |
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Liberal networks do not exist in the US. These are COMMERCIAL media outlets that tweak content to feed to audiences to sell to advertisers. Consumers are the product. Commercial media show whatever they think will grab eyeballs, and apparently more liberal than conservative eyeballs exist. Follow the money.
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If Bloomberg wants to follow the money, he would move to the right. And as Sam Stone says, making Fox News into another liberal network means competing with all the other liberal networks. It would probably work out like the Air America radio did. The idea was just set up another network like Rush Limbaugh, except from the left, and appeal to all the under-served progressive voices ( ![]() I don't think Bloomberg can afford Fox News, and if he were to buy it up to change it into something more ideologically to his liking, he will ruin the brand. We already have CNN and MSNBC. (And ABC and CBS and NBC and PBS). Regards, Shodan |
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Fox would have to be for sale, would it not? Is it for sale?
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Now that's a daft proposal. As mentioned, NewsCorp could just turn around and use the proceeds from the sale to seed a bigger better brand-new rightwing news network. What, would the proponents then expect Comcast/DirecTV/TimeWarner/VerizonFIOS/etc. to deny access to such an outfit?
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If media only followed the money, we would have more conservative media. And shows to that extent that buying Fox News and changing it into another liberal outlet would be a bad business decision. Like Air America was. Obviously there is a great deal more to success in American media than just political slant. But it is a factor. Regards, Shodan |
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The point being, Shodan, is in a market saturated with burger joints, the sole pizza place is going to be hopping!
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This seems like such a stereotypical liberal suggestion: telling rich people what should be done with their money.
If George Conway / Tom Wright want someone to buy up Fox News, they should start raising funds and do it themselves. Last edited by HurricaneDitka; 11-11-2019 at 01:14 PM. |
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Won't someone please think of the poor money?!?
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Plus at least some of the liberal eyeballs are over-counted in some sense, since Quote:
Regards, Shodan |
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Why would Fox have to be for sale? It's a publicly-traded company. The Busch family didn't want Anheuser-Busch taken over by InBev, but it's now Anheuser-Busch InBev.
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The Murdochs own 39% of the stock outright, and rest assured, they have a lock on the 12% needed to keep them in effective control. They would have to agree to put it up for sale - a hostile IPO makes zero sense unless Bloomberg is willing to pay absolutely insane multiples. If the Murdochs refuse to sell at any price, Bloomberg would have to price News Corp so high that 82% of the remaining shares would agree to sell.
Last edited by JohnT; 11-11-2019 at 04:27 PM. |
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Fox trumpets ratings that ignore the REAL elitist, liberal media: the nightly newscasts from ABC, NBC, and CBS. ABC's World News Tonight draws an average audience of 8.6 million viewers. NBC Nightly News is second with 7.9 million, and CBS is in third place with 5.9 million. Meanwhile, what's the highest rated Fox News show? Hannity, which averages 3.2 million viewers per night. And Hannity is in prime time, which means it has a bigger potential audience. (Compare Hannity with the lame CBS 8:00 p.m. Monday night comedies, The Neighborhood and Bob Hearts Abishola, each of which draws somewhere around 2.4-2.7 million more viewers than Hannity.) Want another data point? look at the Sunday morning news shows where Fox News Sunday is in fourth place, behind Meet The Press, This Week, and Face The Nation. Of course, none of the news shows can afford to get cocky,. The highest-rated Sunday morning program is CBS Sunday Morning, for 16 years in a row. |
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Fox isn't nearly the only propaganda game in town. There's three "all news" radio stations in my town with lots of talk and it's all 100% right wing BS. There's seven religious broadcast stations here that when they're not preaching religious BS they're spewing right wing, "Trump was sent here to save us!" BS. All of this propaganda goes out all day and all night. Truth isn't even given a nod.
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If Bloomberg was so inclined as to get into the slanted news business he would be better off following the example of Sinclair and buying up a network of local stations, locking in the news staff with contracts with punitive break clauses and then forcing them to read out propaganda as part of each news broadcast. Seems to be working for him despite resistance from the stations themselves.
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They are intervening by running for President, and in Steyer's case, also running pro-impeachment ads. What's wrong with people telling them how they can get more bang for their buck? I don't get what's "stereotypically liberal" about that. Quote:
Last edited by RTFirefly; 11-13-2019 at 06:46 AM. |
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cite please. |
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