[SunStar]

AOLTIMEWARNER and WALT DISNEY CO. have been in talks for the past 18 months to merge CNN and ABC NEWS into a 'stand-alone news powerhouse,' reports the LOS ANGELES TIMES on Tuesday. MORE///

[Keith in Iowa]

People I know who've worked at CNN say it's a Mickey Mouse operation...

[Landru]

CNN merging with ABC, huh.
*Marvelous*

My-my; we live in the age of possibilities, eh.

Perhaps the next step, the crowning achievement after this monster is created would be cross-breeding the *thing* with any number of *giant* rodents or reptiles.

Don't have a clue what it could be called, or, what it'd look like for that matter.
But just imagine the size (& volume!) of shit that'd come outa the *thing*.
Frightening.

Well, as they always say?

..."The turd never drops far from the bunghole." ~or some-such nonsense~

[OldFriend]

LOSERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!! hee hee

[Robert A Cook PE]

Nothing new here .....

You really think there is any difference between anybody's attitude at ABCNNBCBS and the NY Times/Washington Post/LA Times?

[martin_fierro]

[Joe Boucher]

So C.N.N. which is a liberal socialist leaning news rag will team up with pety Jennings a socialist anti American news reader. So? Just more Democrap propaganda.

[grania]

Under the plan AOL TIMEWARNER and CNN's news divisions would be pooled into a new company with revenues of more than $1.6 billion -- approximately $500 million to $600 million accounted for by ABC News and more than $1 billion from CNN. AOL TIMEWARNER would own between two-thirds and three-quarters of the new company, according to the plan.

The fact that the corporation that runs Disney's fantasyland also controls the media and the news is just awful for those who want objective and honest information which is not geared toward selling us stuff and making us feel good about what's going on.

It's a small world folks, and everything you learn about it is seriously distorted.

[EdReform]

AOL, DISNEY IN TALKS TO MERGE NEWS OPERATIONS

Seems queer...

[Pokey78]

LA Times: AOL, Disney in Talks to Merge News Operations

NEW YORK -- Top executives at AOL Time Warner Inc. and Walt Disney Co. have been negotiating a plan to spin off their CNN and ABC News divisions into a stand-alone news powerhouse, but the talks got a lukewarm reception last week at an AOL Time Warner board meeting, according to people familiar with the situation.

The proposal would leave ABC News, which carries high salaries for its celebrated news anchors, as a minority financial partner in the new venture, sources said.

[July 4th]

Great. A news organization that sucks twice as much.