Rupert Murdoch’s latest effort to upend the media landscape hit a snag recently, after his audacious $80 billion bid to take over Time Warner Inc. was turned down.
Sources told the New York Times on Wednesday that Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox made inquiries last month about a bid that would have cast huge ripples throughout the industry.
In a statement on Wednesday, 21st Century Fox confirmed the bid to take over Time Warner.
The company born out of such a merger would have control over the likes of Fox News and TNT. Sources told the Times that antitrust concerns would force a sale of CNN, which could prompt a heated bidding war.
CNN’s own Brian Stelter addressed that very scenario earlier this month, correctly predicting that Murdoch would be forced to divest the cable news channel if such a bid were to go through.
So, does complete evil confer near immortality on everyone, or just white conservatives?
He can probably salve his disappointment by marrying another 30something year old.
Yesterday, I suggested I was going to go to Dick Cheney’s gravesite someday and drive a wooden stake into the ground in the general vicinity of what would be his heart.
Murdoch is now #2 on my list for the same treatment…
Murdoch is the biggest threat to America. Let’s not forget it was Darth Vader(Cheney) who fast tracked Murdoch’s citizenship.
I often wonder whether Cheney’s family will pay people to guard his grave 24/7 against the huge number of people who have put dancing/spitting/peeing/othering on it onto their own bucket lists, or whether they’ll do the right Free Market thing and sell tickets.
And if they do pay people to guard it, quis custodiet ipsos custodes?