I'm not sure where I got this -
if it was from you, thank you! On my screen overnight, re-reading this, and wow... Rings hyper-true.
The cast of swamp creatures.
This begins in the #GQP swamp and drills down to the sludgiest of #truth about Lord #TrumpVirus + #Fox fiends/ cult & cohorts
📌 Vice, the brash digital-media disrupter that charmed giants like #Disney and #Fox into investing before a stunning crash-landing, is preparing to file for bankruptcy, according to two people with knowledge of its operations.
📌 The filing could come in the coming weeks, according to three people familiar with the matter who weren’t authorized to discuss the potential bankruptcy on the record.
📌 The company has been looking for a buyer, and still might find one, to avoid declaring bankruptcy. More than five companies have expressed interest in acquiring Vice, according to a person briefed on the discussions. The chances of that, however, are growing increasingly slim, said one of the people with knowledge of the potential bankruptcy.
📌 A bankruptcy filing would be a bleak coda to the tumultuous story of Vice, a new-media interloper that sought to supplant the media establishment before persuading it to invest hundreds of millions of dollars. In 2017, after a funding round from the private-equity firm TPG, Vice was worth $5.7 billion. But today, by most accounts, it’s worth a tiny fraction of that.
📌 In the event of a bankruptcy, Vice’s largest debtholder, Fortress Investment Group, could end up controlling the company, said one of the people. Vice would continue operating normally and run an auction to sell the company over a 45-day period, with Fortress in pole position as the most likely acquirer.
#vice #Media #Bakruptcy #Politics #Economy #US
NY Times Paywall Link
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/business/media/vice-bankruptcy.html
It seems like a good time for Fox's #shareholders to sue #Fox for the failure of Fox's senior management to uphold their fiduciary responsibilities by dispensing with such a valuable asset with no appreciable rationale.
When a corporation does what Fox has done it often indicates that senior #management &/or major #voting shareholders are more interested in controlling #information than in producing profits & returns on #investments.
Control of information is control of understanding is #control of #perceptions is control of choices is control of societies.
#foxnews #tuckercarlson #tucker #usa #fiduciaryduty #profitmotive #fiduciaryresponsibility #law #msm #informationera #politics #business #returnoninvestment #propaganda #massmedia #controlsystems #uk
Apropos #Fox ...
A good read co-written by Todd Beeton and George Takei...
#MTG, Boebert, & other #TrumpVirus cultists are sad to see their favorite #propaganda / #disinformation source exit the #Fox stage.
In the worlds of #media #news #disinformation #propaganda #Fox & #TuckerCarlson
(soon to be working directly for RT &/or Newsmax?) Too much for Fox "news" to endorse and reward without limits?
The worlds of #propaganda/#disinformation are being shaken up, along with actual #news / #journalism, or efforts at them.
While the big story (traction-wise) seems to be the "departure" of #Fox anti-#truth network's #TuckerCarlson, other shocks/after-shocks are competing for today's news cycle. For starts, @ #CNN
Don Lemon was sacked from CNN (in an effort to get still blander?), while Andrea Mitchell is being roundly blasted for leading and staying on news of "Mr. Biden" seeming unsharp &/or frail, reported while stumbling and completely ignoring the Fox bombs going off.
Tough day in the mainstream #media world! And a huge challenge for the future of #truth & #trust in #journalism and talking heads.
Vergleich zwischen Fox News und Dominion
Von Bernd Pickert
Selbst der Vergleich von 787,5 Millionen Dollar bedeutet für Fox, mit blauem Auge davongekommen zu sein. Schlimmer wäre gewesen, Fake News zuzugeben.
From their headline to G-d's ears.
Amazing to hear the #GQP #seditionists spouting off - without yet even knowing the charges - about how "Americans will never stand for this!". B.S. The same people who celebrated #sedition and #insurrection aa tourism and patriotism are surely on board with MTG and Tucker, revving up gun-talk and leapfrogging over #justice, #accountability, #truth, #reality, into #MTG LooneyLand powered by #Fox and #TrumpVirus variants still spreading the hate, Big Lie, denial, and division. #indictment #crime #treason #cult #denial
En Écosse, le Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Foxhounds a décidé d’arrêter la chasse aux renards, après plus de 250 ans d’activité. Une décision applaudie par les défenseurs des animaux et les groupes anti-chasse.
La raison d’une telle décision après autant d’années d’activité ?...
Non, pas une soudaine prise de conscience empathique ou écologique, mais :
L’élevage de chiens de chasse est devenu “non viable” en raison de l’urbanisation croissante et du manque d’accès à des terres rurales. Et aussi parce qu'une nouvelle réglementation a été mise en place en Écosse : désormais, les chasseurs ne peuvent plus utiliser de meutes de chiens pour débusquer les mammifères sauvages, à moins d’avoir un permis ; ceux qui détiennent une licence ne peuvent pas utiliser plus de deux chiens ; enfin, les chasseurs ne peuvent plus exercer la chasse aux sentiers, pratique qui consiste à utiliser un chien pour trouver et suivre une odeur animale.
Mais on s'en fout, l'important est que ce loisir de nantis ignoble et injustifiable prenne enfin fin.
#GB #Écosse #Scotland #chasse #animal #protection-animale #biodiversité #Fox #Renard
No surprise to sentient beings: #TrumpVirus only has a few gears, all prone towards sticking, slipping and bloviating.
Meanwhile, in an odd moment of Rupert being Rupert, on Trump being Trump....
Alvin Bragg, NY's DA overseeing the case against #TrumpVirus at a New York level, has been getting death threats.
Today, after Trump " #Truth 'd" a post of himself holding a baseball bat aimed at a photo of #AlvinBragg, the DA received an all-caps Death Threat (a truly Drumpfian wordsmith, ~ "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"), accompanied by a white powder. It was harmless (the powder) but reminiscent of yesteryear's anthrax attacks on politicians. (i.e., "domestic terror")
A sort of very New York'ish phenomenon; This appeared in Murdoch's small-circulation tabloid, where - as Lawrence O'Donnell highlighted, the paper knows it's in Blue country (Hamilton was too!) and caters mostly to NY'ers looking at the gossip pages who may buy the Post, and maybe a few curious Dems after headlines like this.
O'Donnell's point: So why the complete opposite on huge-viewership Fox and the big-circulation papers? Still solid Carlson land.
On the Post cover and in the editorial, Trump is clearly credited with being the cause of a vile effect. And maybe more.
So... Rupert Murdoch.... Remember him? The guy who was sued for billions because his "Fox" inflamed sedition and lied, as he defamed Dominion voting machines by going along with the "Big Lie" that they were rigged, or hacked from Mars, or whatever...
So Rupert's also Donnie's long time buddy and cohort in catch & kill and disinformation, not about red or blue, "about the green".
Well, Rupert, sort of like Lindsey Graham (another #TrumpVirus spreader and #Jan6 #seditionist - Rupert's in a good mood I guess, about to re-marry at 93 and 'speaking his mind' now about the Donald. Making like the Dominion lawsuit is nothing ('a billion here, a billion there'), and it turns out he's just having fun, like so many other billionaire fascists.
Yesterday Rupert Murdoch's NYC rag (founded by Hamilton!) disparaged Bragg, typically opining:
Fumbling his Trump case, Alvin Bragg exposes his incompetence nationwide
Not too sympathetic or justice-focused....
But today, after the death threats, this full-page NY Post cover - and even better, a blistering editorial just dissecting every evil instinct and habit that Trump epitomizes, and skewering him, with this absolute truism (we've heard before)
This from his once partner in word-poisoning crime, fellow green-seeker who doesn't take sides, only cash.
If you read nothing else about the reaction in Trump #disinformation world (and #hypocrisy land), read this op ed. It's #reality !
#news #media #Fox #justice #Trump #accountability #law #Jan6 #StormyDaniels
Im Moment wissen wir von 2 geretteten Trawlern mit knapp 800 Menschen. Wir wissen nicht, ob es weitere Boote in der Gegend gibt. Die Flugbahn der 🛩️🇪🇺#Irini #Seagull könnte auf die Ankunft weiterer Boote aus der Cyrenaica hindeuten.
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