Posted on 06/28/2017 6:25:36 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Hopefully the New York Times is next
>>Don’t most coups start with the media?
Erdogan’s involved it, that’s for sure.
Saw an eye-opening talk a few months ago from a Turkish newspaper editor now living here in exile. Abdülhamit Bilici would be jailed at best if he were still in Turkey. Turkey has gone from being a quasi-Democracy (his words) to a complete autocracy in the last several years. He was editor of the largest Turkish newspaper, Zaman, circulation ~1,000,000, until it was taken over by the government a little over a year ago, and ultimately shut down.
Article about this here.
http://www.itv.com/news/story/2016-03-05/turkish-newspaper-seized-by-government/
Video of the takeover. This is what Totalitarianism looks like up close and personal.
https://youtu.be/9fN9bqOlaKM
No. The cable services are no longer part of Time Warner. Time Warner Cable was spun off from Time Warner years ago, and it was just purchased by Spectrum.
Content.
Thanx someone already answered. Best wishes
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