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Originally Posted by Moses
So Supe, you felt better when Ted Turner was trying to become America's news icon?
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Nope. I didn't like it then, either. But....he has been fairly benign. TMC is a good old movie channel. Ted Turner is not in Mr. Murdock's league, in several ways.
Murdock could afford to buy Turner just to discard him. But the big difference is Murdoch's track record. Nobody believes he will behave himself. He will, just as surely as the Sun rises in the East, manipulate the Wall Street Journal to his satisfaction. That's interesting. He could control presidential elections, for example. Some say he already has.
And of course, some of our contributors here are still in the development stage I recall being in during most of my thirties. That stage is characterized by idolization of commercial success, and a belief that a Winner Take All economic system is a good idea. Might makes right, in other words. I am wondering if those folks will come right out and say they are comfortable with a single person basically controlling America, as long as he's really, truly, obscenely, rich.