Elon Musk Acquires $1B Stake in CNN's Parent Company

Posted by Alien1Being 1 day ago

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Comment by Alive-in-2025 1 day ago

Well, this will be a great improvement for America. We all need more centralization of media ownership by the oligarchs.

Comment by lenkite 1 day ago

The USA should formally change its name to CSA (Corporate States of America) or OSA (Oligarchy States of America). A product should advertise its functionality.

Comment by sheikhnbake 1 day ago

CSA is more fitting since that acronym was tried before and the corporate states of America will have a similar lifespan considering the direction the country is currently heading.

Comment by tim333 1 day ago

Or Oceania if it wants to get ahead of the curve.

Comment by Zenul_Abidin 1 day ago

There seems to be a lot of dishonesty in mainstream media in general, so personally I wouldn't mind a different perspective but the entire industry needs a reform.

Comment by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago

> a different perspective

The broad conclusion one reaches surveying the mainstream media and the alternative-facts media those rejecting the mainstream seem to find is that the former, despite its flaws, is far more a news source than the latter, which mostly tickles its users wants and insecurities.

Comment by swed420 1 day ago

> the former, despite its flaws, is far more a news source than the latter

The difference between 50% truthiness and 75% truthiness is just not that important, especially when one manufactures consent for the other, and the missing 25% is the most important part.

Comment by JumpCrisscross 20 hours ago

> difference between 50% truthiness and 75% truthiness is just not that important

It’s a 1% false-information rate versus 20 to 40% [1]. (You can identify someone consuming that stuff within a few minutes of conversation. They’re unusually correlated in their tells, given how seemingly diverse the number of providers are.)

> the missing 25% is the most important part

Read real journalism from multiple countries. (Not the free propaganda stuff.)

Once someone is addicted to alternative news, I don’t think they can be recovered. But we can keep more folks from going down that path.

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/partisan...

[2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21670811.2024.23...

[3] https://news.umich.edu/mainstream-news-more-reliable-than-so...

Comment by swed420 16 hours ago

> It’s a 1% false-information rate versus 20 to 40%

> buzzfeednews.com

> Read real journalism from multiple countries.

All of this is still going to be constricted by global capital interests.

> Once someone is addicted to alternative news, I don’t think they can be recovered.

Same for the average imperialist liberal guzzling NYT as gospel.

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Comment by sbseitz 1 day ago

I'd love to see facts/truth. Musk ain't it.

Comment by jurgenburgen 1 day ago

Mainstream media is owned by the oligarchs. How does this increase perspectives?

Comment by swed420 1 day ago

This way we get to choose our preferred flavor of propaganda

Comment by watwut 1 day ago

What different perspective? They are already biased toward right wing, just not enough for siegh heiling Musk

Comment by dead_hn_theory 1 day ago

> When the left-wing minions of CNN look up at the mega-bucks Lords of Skydance whose money keeps the troubled network’s parent company afloat, Elon Musk will be looking back down

Lmao, I suppose this is the article. I'll take it.

Discuss.

Comment by rf15 1 day ago

Washington Post moment, I'd expect. The information space around the next election will be crazy. State of emergency and president for life, anyone?

Comment by polotics 1 day ago

Not quite: in the timeline it's the next one that's for life, a neuralink-plugged CNN-says-he's-alive heir that will then be `alive` until humanity's extinction.

just kidding

Comment by Henchman21 1 day ago

> heir that will then be `alive` until humanity's extinction.

So like 2030?

Comment by polotics 1 day ago

you're welcome to develop the idea further as you see fit!

Comment by Henchman21 19 hours ago

Honestly I feel like the people behind Warhammer 40k would sue ;)

Comment by sbseitz 1 day ago

CNN is already right wing propaganda... now it will be worse?

Comment by sheikhnbake 1 day ago

Leave it to Elon to spend a shit load on a business actively losing value.

Comment by Zigurd 1 day ago

How long does he get away with hiding his dead cows in herds of still living cows? SpaceX and Tesla have both been burdened with herds of dead cows without much of a dent in their ability to retain absurd valuations. It will be the case study of the century when it's finally in postmortem.

Comment by sheikhnbake 1 day ago

Probably until his favor with the executive branch comes to an end. Until that happens he'll keep getting federal/defense contracts and regulation won't be a concern.

Comment by Zigurd 23 hours ago

That's normal. That's how defense contractors stay in business even when their products flop. There's something else going on with Elon. Can't put my finger on it, which is to say I don't understand investment bank fuckery well enough to identify who is levitating Elon's valuations.

Comment by tstrimple 12 hours ago

There seems to be some fundamental thing in humans which makes a subset of them follow narcissists like messiahs. MAGA and Elon stans aren’t that far apart.