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Comments on news posted 2006-09-15 09:00:35: Bloomberg reports that Rupert Murdoch may sell his 38% stake in DirecTV to Liberty Media in exchange for Liberty Media's 16% stake in News Corp. ..

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Gwailo

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"Turd Bird?"

Sometimes I think Mr. Murdoch is the modern equivalent to Ted Turner. Both are "red necks" and both were a bit ahead of their time. At least Mr. Murdoch didn't marry Jane Fonda.


kamm

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said by Gwailo See Profile :

Sometimes I think Mr. Murdoch is the modern equivalent to Ted Turner. Both are "red necks" and both were a bit ahead of their time. At least Mr. Murdoch didn't marry Jane Fonda.
Yeah, he did much worse: he introduced the sheer political lies &manipulations via so-called "news" programs.


malvado6
I pee on Bushes.

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reply to Gwailo
If Murdoch's out, then I'm in.

We don't do News Corp in this house.

Maybe Murdoch's next move will be to divest his American Citizenship that he bought from the Republifreaks.

subman87
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join:2000-11-24
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reply to Gwailo

Murdoch & Jane Fonda..... now we be talking about 2 turd birds.
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Gwailo

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reply to kamm
Yeah, he did much worse: he introduced the sheer political lies & manipulations via so-called "news" programs.
Whoa ... you're implying Ted's CNN doesn't do the same thing with the opposite twist? Let them both report and let us decide. We're d--- lucky we have enough [current] press freedom to at least get two sides. Let us both hope we don't lose that because any time that Willie Bill wants to block a movie on ABC ... it's getting "scary," regardless if it was historically correct or not.


rachelsfx

join:2004-09-27
Pensacola, FL
reply to kamm
Funny, CNN is the Clinton News Network even according to Democratic Strategists. Ted also married Jane "Treason" Fonda, and Ted has a perverse hatred for anything Christian. I thought it was funny Ted lost billions in the AOL mess.


PolarBear
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Does this mean we can quit using, or at least drastically improve, the crappy DirecTV Plus DVR's Murdoch imposed on us DirecTV customers?

DirecTV should have never broke up with Tivo.

Oh, and let DirecTV merge with Echostar? Yeah right, That'd be a bigger monopoly than Micro$oft.
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rachelsfx

join:2004-09-27
Pensacola, FL

Why would DirecTV want EchoStar????

Unless you are in BFE, everybody tells me both suck and end up back at Cable.

Murdoch, being shrewd, has probably figured that out as a bad investment since he can't control both and force quality on them. News Corp makes him more $$$$ anyway.


rit56

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Re: "Turd Bird?"

you write......
"regardless if it was historically correct or not."a willingness to accept lies as an acceptable portrayal of historical times in our countries history is pathetic don't you think? even making a statement like that is frightening. you're saying as long as it suits my side of the argument it's fine because it is good entertainment and it's fun to see the other side trashed on tv.. how many people will watch something like that and believe it. you sir sum up what is wrong with this country. "your" side has this us against them mentality as if this were a football game. the blaming of one political party over the other is exactly the problem .... remember the constitution? "We the People?" "We"...... their lies hurt your side as much as the other. they can put out as much propaganda as they wish but not many people are buying it anymore. 37% approval rating. after all 9/11 happened on George Bush's watch, one month after he ignored a report from the CIA titled "Bin Laden determined to attack the USA" plus how they screwed up Katrina..... go ahead and flame me. I'm for America not one party and frankly I'm a bit tired of being lied to by the party that controls all 3 branches of government plus I'm tired of getting screwed.


Transmaster
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Eat your heart out CNN, don't you wish you had the viewer ratings these three have

Here have some heart burn Kamm

scooper

join:2000-07-11
Youngsville, NC

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what's good for the goose....

Gee - just because the FCC said "NO!!" when Charley Ergen tried to have echostar buy Direct, RUpert thinks the other way would be looked favorably on ? Give me a break...


pnh102
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reply to kamm
Re: "Turd Bird?"

said by kamm See Profile :

Yeah, he did much worse: he introduced the sheer political lies &manipulations via so-called "news" programs.
Perhaps you should write to your congressmen and ask them to shut down FOX News then, as they were quite happy to do threaten to do that to ABC when they exercised their rights to "free" speech.
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jdracer47

join:2005-10-16
Auburn, PA
reply to rachelsfx
Re: Why would DirecTV want EchoStar????

They suck if you want broadband....
My Dish Network and Verizon DSL do just fine, if Comcast was in my area I would probably switch though.


pnh102
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Re: "Turd Bird?"

said by Transmaster See Profile :

Eat your heart out CNN Here have some heart burn Kamm
LOL People still watch CNN?
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Transmaster
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reply to rachelsfx
said by rachelsfx See Profile :

Funny, CNN is the Clinton News Network even according to Democratic Strategists. Ted also married Jane "Treason" Fonda, and Ted has a perverse hatred for anything Christian. I thought it was funny Ted lost billions in the AOL mess.
Around here we call CNN the Communist News Network
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pnh102
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said by Transmaster See Profile :

Around here we call CNN the Communist News Network
I have got to get more creative... I've just been calling it crap
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said by Transmaster See Profile :

Eat your heart out CNN, don't you wish you had the viewer ratings these three have
Yeah, never underestimated the power of people unwilling or unable to think for theselves lapping it up from people telling them how to think all the while tossing fact to the wind... All pundits need to be dropped in the ocean... Except maybe for Colbert since he makes fun of all them.

As the punchline of the joke goes... It a would be "a good start."
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Gwailo

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reply to rit56

Just the facts, mam....
I'm not going to flame you!


pnh102
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said by bmn See Profile :

Yeah, never underestimated the power of people unwilling or unable to think for theselves lapping it up from people telling them how to think all the while tossing fact to the wind...
Well, how many times has FOX News been caught in a deliberate lie? How does it measure up against other news outlets when it comes to getting caught in a major news-related scandal (i.e., something akin to the New York Times and the Jayson Blair scandal, CBS and the fake memos scandal, etc.)

It seems all of FOX News' detractors who claim that their content is somehow "fake" often don't realize that compared to other "news" sources, their record is actually pretty clean.
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Zoly

join:2004-01-04
Houston, TX

reply to pnh102
Yes, we are watching CNN!!! And loving it. And we love MSNBC too. Are there any other news networks in the US?

Nope. Trying to find something else withing the last 10 years with no results. Just don't tel me that FOXNEWS is a news channel.

And you know why they have such high rating? Cause all Christian fascists (they have noting in common with Christianity) and right-wing zealots are watching ITS.

And we have lots of those individuals now as there is a favorable condition for them created by Bushists.
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