The Federal Communications Commission has greenlit Paramount’s petition to allow foreign investors to own at least 49.5 percent of its equity—should the media behemoth successfully acquire Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Republicans and AIPAC dems are selling out every piece of America and its citizens at record pace since their polling is at record lows
Don’t worry, of elect Democrats, I’m sure they’ll fix it
Allowing the LEADERS OF 9/11 to CONTROL OUR NEWS is putting America First!
-LITERALLY Republicans!
So basically it’s an auction to the highest bidder for control over US media landscape.
Gonna be Saudi Arabia taking majority stakes there, no doubt about it.
If China wanted to they could drown the saudis out
China’s game may be to let the rest of the world eat each other and then step in to the chaos left.
It’s probably in their interest to continue having a lot of stupid Americans with money to buy their products while they hold our debt. Unless another market exists to replace us, we can’t be allowed to completely collapse. Not that it’s much better being in limbo.
While China definitely wouldn’t want to lose the US market entirely, I’m pretty sure at this point they consider the EU market a lot more important. Which is why they won’t allow Putin to nuke Kiev.
I agree, just pointing out that they could if they wanted to
China won’t be invited to the auction. Maybe we’ll let in South Korea or India, though.
It’ll be a different middle eastern country taking over. One we cant mention.
Will it? How much money do they have after all the necessary oil infrastructure repairs? Or are they giving up on oil to become American oligarchs?
SA has majorly diversified their holdings over the last decade or so. They’re no longer solely dependent on Aramco (although still majorly). Specifically they own a lot of the global media landscape, both outright and through more… obscure means.
auction to the highest bidder
Literally how media ad space has always been sold.
But wouldn’t allow a Chinese company to own a social media site operating in the US.
The Chinese didn’t paid enough
The bribes didn’t go through yet.
Side thought, I don’t think the current political structure of the US would suit china, if they ended up holding soft power over it. I think they’d purge people pretty quickly.
The harvested data wasn’t going to the ‘right’ places.
Capitalism is a big club, and the socialists ain’t in it.
Socialists? Where?
Osama bin Laden is laughing his ass off!
Finally, I can buy Fox News and turn it into what it was meant to be: 24/7 news about foxes
I feel I would end up watching that more than I would be willing to admit
Nice. certain countries I can’t mention here can skip the middle man and just own our propoganda outlets directly.
Basically nothing could go wrong, because Israel and the oil lobby already owns all the media lol
Who else is going to buy in?
The Saudis? They don’t have any money right now. The Dutch maybe? Brazil?
Come on Canada, you know what to do.
Actually I’m not sure it’s worth it. It’s still giving money to Americans. But it would be funny to be able to inundate them with propaganda of our choice.
Hmmm. Canada could buy 49% of Fox. Some sympathetic American group 2% and slowly make it sane.
That’s some maple covered neighbourly propaganda there eh, we’ll get you spruced up in no time.
You’ll get to know the log jammers waltz whether you like it or not
aMEriCA fIrST
America “first” is always America last, always
What are you talking about? Americans are going to make big profits off this
I don’t really count the Epstein class as Americans. But that’s just me.
Nothing more American than kidnapping children to feed them to the Reich
America .51th
Not if foreign investors control US media.
I’d love to see this smug asshole thrown in prison. The way douchenozzles like him pretend they are being above board on everything while gaslighting everyone.
trump is the FCC. Why show that bald, glasses guy?
He’s the Chairman of the FCC Brendan Carr.
More like seat warmer, am I right, folks?
Stick around, we have a great show for you tonight aaaaaand we just got cancelled for that joke I just did
A rose is a rose is a rose. trump makes the call, the bald glasses guy jumps.
Someone has to implement tiny-d donnie’s vibes, though.
Yes, we know he’s all-in on the actual cancel culture that cons crave, so donnie picked him for that reason.
I bet it’s the saudis.
Great crowd to be friends with…
This just means that no one watches TV news anymore. God knows, its been 27 years since I have.
This just means that no one watches TV
newsanymore. I have free cable, long story, and I still don’t watch it.Indeed. I had a choice to make when broadband was first rolled out in my hometown. Pay for cable TV or internet. Didn’t have the capability for both, and figured that paying for a two-way communication service was a better deal, so the cable TV was cut in '99.
I used to watch the network nightly news on youtube but I noticed that the programming got shorter and shorter each year… as the commericals took more of the half-hour airtime… it was like… naaah… so quit it all and switched to news journals and independent sources.
Oh yeah, you could actually watch a movie on TV around then. Now all I think is STFU whenever I an advertisement for anything comes up. Adding in all the websites that are like sign up! make an account! pay us please, turn off your adblocker (on my phone I use a neutral DNS lol.)
Isn’t Rupert Murdock Australian?
He renounced his Australian citizenship in 1985, when he became a full US citizen.
