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

(symby.com)

39 points | by Alien1Being 9 hours ago ago

21 comments

  • Alive-in-2025 9 hours ago

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

    • lenkite 5 hours 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.

      • sheikhnbake an hour 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.

      • tim333 2 hours ago

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

    • Zenul_Abidin 8 hours 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.

      • JumpCrisscross 8 hours 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.

        • swed420 an hour 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.

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      • sbseitz 5 hours ago

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

      • jurgenburgen 5 hours ago

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

        • swed420 an hour ago

          This way we get to choose our preferred flavor of propaganda

      • watwut 6 hours ago

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

  • sheikhnbake an hour ago

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

    • Zigurd 15 minutes 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.

      • sheikhnbake 4 minutes 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.

  • sbseitz 5 hours ago

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

  • dead_hn_theory 9 hours 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.

    • rf15 8 hours 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?

      • polotics 8 hours 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

        • Henchman21 7 hours ago

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

          So like 2030?

          • polotics 5 hours ago

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