The Federal Communications Commission has greenlit Paramount’s petition to allow foreign investors to own at least 49.5 percent of its equity—should the media behemoth successfully acquire Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Not if foreign investors control US media.
America “first” is always America last, always
What are you talking about? Americans are going to make big profits off this
I don’t really count the Epstein class as Americans. But that’s just me.
Nothing more American than kidnapping children to feed them to the Reich
Ask any other country, where US money is in every media.
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Republicans and AIPAC dems are selling out every piece of America and its citizens at record pace since their polling is at record lows
Don’t worry, of elect Democrats, I’m sure they’ll fix it
So basically it’s an auction to the highest bidder for control over US media landscape.
Gonna be Saudi Arabia taking majority stakes there, no doubt about it.
If China wanted to they could drown the saudis out
China’s game may be to let the rest of the world eat each other and then step in to the chaos left.
I agree, just pointing out that they could if they wanted to
It’s probably in their interest to continue having a lot of stupid Americans with money to buy their products while they hold our debt. Unless another market exists to replace us, we can’t be allowed to completely collapse. Not that it’s much better being in limbo.
While China definitely wouldn’t want to lose the US market entirely, I’m pretty sure at this point they consider the EU market a lot more important. Which is why they won’t allow Putin to nuke Kiev.
It’ll be a different middle eastern country taking over. One we cant mention.
Will it? How much money do they have after all the necessary oil infrastructure repairs? Or are they giving up on oil to become American oligarchs?
SA has majorly diversified their holdings over the last decade or so. They’re no longer solely dependent on Aramco (although still majorly). Specifically they own a lot of the global media landscape, both outright and through more… obscure means.
Allowing the LEADERS OF 9/11 to CONTROL OUR NEWS is putting America First!
-LITERALLY Republicans!
But wouldn’t allow a Chinese company to own a social media site operating in the US.
Capitalism is a big club, and the socialists ain’t in it.
Socialists? Where?
The bribes didn’t go through yet.
Side thought, I don’t think the current political structure of the US would suit china, if they ended up holding soft power over it. I think they’d purge people pretty quickly.
The Chinese didn’t paid enough
The harvested data wasn’t going to the ‘right’ places.
Osama bin Laden is laughing his ass off!
This just means that no one watches TV news anymore. God knows, its been 27 years since I have.
This just means that no one watches TV
newsanymore. I have free cable, long story, and I still don’t watch it.Indeed. I had a choice to make when broadband was first rolled out in my hometown. Pay for cable TV or internet. Didn’t have the capability for both, and figured that paying for a two-way communication service was a better deal, so the cable TV was cut in '99.
I used to watch the network nightly news on youtube but I noticed that the programming got shorter and shorter each year… as the commericals took more of the half-hour airtime… it was like… naaah… so quit it all and switched to news journals and independent sources.
Oh yeah, you could actually watch a movie on TV around then. Now all I think is STFU whenever I an advertisement for anything comes up. Adding in all the websites that are like sign up! make an account! pay us please, turn off your adblocker (on my phone I use a neutral DNS lol.)
Come on Canada, you know what to do.
Actually I’m not sure it’s worth it. It’s still giving money to Americans. But it would be funny to be able to inundate them with propaganda of our choice.
Hmmm. Canada could buy 49% of Fox. Some sympathetic American group 2% and slowly make it sane.
That’s some maple covered neighbourly propaganda there eh, we’ll get you spruced up in no time.
You’ll get to know the log jammers waltz whether you like it or not
If you were writing the story of the end of the American Empire you would be right around the part where leadership was selling out to the highest bidder to try to save themselves.
Save themselves from what? As the country continues to deteriorate, the parasites profiting from its downfall will just go somewhere else. They can afford it.
It’s the dumbasses that keep supporting these con artists that are going to suffer.
So not JUST Israel? Let’s be real. This is in reality just a way to legalize Zionist interest. It’s not like they’re gonna let the CCP start a media station
Ok, so what americans demand from ever other country is to gain access and control over their media. But its not ok for foreigners to do the same thing?
Fair point, but also a nontrivial amount of the blame for the rise of US fascism can be placed at the feet of an Australian media mogul.
Isn’t Rupert Murdock Australian?
He renounced his Australian citizenship in 1985, when he became a full US citizen.
Nice. certain countries I can’t mention here can skip the middle man and just own our propoganda outlets directly.
China’s been pushing down hard on the movie industry for decades. The majority of AMC executives put friendliness with China in the bio on their profiles. Disney capitulates to China to the extent that they’re willing to remake posters excluding african americans.
