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Maybe CNN and Faux should just combine networks and be done with it.
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brettdale
May 2023
OP
Remember the good old days when Ted Turner was the boss? No more CNN for me. n/t
SheilaAnn
May 2023
#4
A board member and the president of one of the larger CNN shareholders is a RWNJ
LetMyPeopleVote
May 2023
#6
bullimiami
(14,074 posts)1. Im feeling cnn have screwed themselves but good.
Meadowoak
(6,606 posts)2. They might as well, I wouldn't watch either of you paid me.
Trailrider1951
(3,574 posts)3. Yep, I have watched CNN for decades, but no more
They're dead to me now.
SheilaAnn
(10,670 posts)4. Remember the good old days when Ted Turner was the boss? No more CNN for me. n/t
Oneironaut
(6,245 posts)5. CNN is the Enlightened Centrist News Network.
LetMyPeopleVote
(176,745 posts)6. A board member and the president of one of the larger CNN shareholders is a RWNJ
Link to tweet
A reminder that CNN is now heavily influenced by key Warner Bros. Discovery board member and Trump supporter, John Malone.
Malone is chairman of Liberty Media, Discovery's largest shareholder.
He previously donated $250,000 to Trump's inauguration, and gushed over Fox News' style of 'journalism,' saying, the U.S. "needs Fox News or something like it. Because otherwise, everythings leftist."
The use of his term "leftist" here really says it all.
Malone has also compared himself to Rupert Murdoch: "Rupert is sort of like I am. Hes a libertarian, but he thinks we should have a strong military," he told the Financial Times in 2017.
According to Vox, Malone has repeatedly wished, in public, for CNN to remake itself.
Malone is chairman of Liberty Media, Discovery's largest shareholder.
He previously donated $250,000 to Trump's inauguration, and gushed over Fox News' style of 'journalism,' saying, the U.S. "needs Fox News or something like it. Because otherwise, everythings leftist."
The use of his term "leftist" here really says it all.
Malone has also compared himself to Rupert Murdoch: "Rupert is sort of like I am. Hes a libertarian, but he thinks we should have a strong military," he told the Financial Times in 2017.
According to Vox, Malone has repeatedly wished, in public, for CNN to remake itself.
