Posted on 02/12/2010 10:36:04 AM PST by samprestidigitation
Open your checkbook and make a better offer.
Why stop it, I’m looking for a few rich Saudi investors myself.
I totally agree with you, and you all made good points. I feel a lot better now. I was just worrying he was going to increase his holdings a lot more. But you’re right, Murdoch is a foreigner, I forgot about that. Is there any way to track if there are other MSM companies that have significant Middle Eastern investors? Like what about the New York Times?
Go Thunder!
Frantzie that is the only logical answer. Why enslave yourself to TV anyway? Not much worth watching unless you’re a serious sports fan.
Rupert Murdoch was born in Australia but has been a US citizen for many years.
Publicly held corporations must disclose large stockholders.
I remember how GWB was under siege for the Dubai Ports thing, and was forced to back down--John Gibson and Neil Cavuto showed their disgust and comtempt for the people (us conservatives and man;y others)who made GB retreat. Maybe their ox was gored.
What about American Idol?
Unfortunately, the whole thing revolves around Rupert Murdoch. He won’t live forever, and after he dies, I hate to think what will become of News Corp. I’m afraid it will rush to join the MSM.
Certainly this Saudi connection has not been healthy. Neither has the Chinese connection. Those have been two areas where Fox news has been influenced in questionable ways.
Fox News will eventually be superseded by Andrew Breitbart.
Mark My Words
Network (1976)
Arthur Jensen: I started as a salesman, Mr. Beale. I sold sewing machines and automobile parts, hair brushes and electronic equipment.
[puts arm around Beale’s shoulders]
Arthur Jensen: They say I can sell anything. I’d like to try to sell something to *you*.
Arthur Jensen: [bellowing] You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it! Is that clear? You think you’ve merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU...WILL...ATONE!
Arthur Jensen: [calmly] Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those *are* the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that . . . perfect world . . . in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.
Howard Beale: Why me?
Arthur Jensen: Because you’re on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.
Howard Beale: I have seen the face of God.
Arthur Jensen: You just might be right, Mr. Beale.
Where is the line drawn between patriotic ideals/values and financial aspirations?
We embargo Cuba, a Communist country which enslaves its people. Yet trade with Red China. (Thanks, Dick & Henry) Tell me how SaudiArabia is any different than a communist nation. Most of the people live in poverty and degradation, and women are chattel with the rights of maybe a dog. For most dogs and women/girls, life is brutish, nasty, and short. The tiny percentage of "royals" live in oil-rich splendor. I guess you could say that FOX is just emulating our own government all these decades, buying their oil and making them richer.
Have obama comment on it. Once he says "News Corpse," the deal will be dead.
What is it? Oh a kid’s show, lol
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