So it's business as usual at Fox.

You might want to look at the reports again. Disney is buying most of Fox's assets but Fox broadcast network, Fox News and Fox Business are not part of the deal and will remain with Rupert Murdoch.

What it does mean is The Fantastic Four and The X-Men are now able to be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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Matt

Was there a second transaction I missed?

Im taking the Fox News aproach and not letting facts get in the way of a good story

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Remember - It's important to be comfortable in your own skin... because it turns out society frowns on wearing other people's

Haha. Good save.

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Matt

Sean Hannity is pretty much a cartoon anyways.

it would be interesting if some big dem doner/supporter would buy fox news etc. Then they change the format to ultra lib etc. Would CNN or someone else fill the Fox void. I'm surprised they haven't done this.

With their purchase of Time Warner, I believe this also means that they'll own at least a decent chunk of Sky, and by extension the cycling team...at least if the Chris Froome salbutamol positive doesn't take the team down.

How is that surprising? They would have to make an offer that is enough for the shareholders to want to sell. Given that they paid 52.4 billion for about 2/3 of 21st century fox, the Fox News portion could be worth over 25 billion by itself. There’s not exactly a long list of people that can afford it. Also how are you going to make a profit on it? Investors aren’t going to spend 25 billion to run a company to the ground.

You mean like MSNBC and CNN?

Al Gor tried this in talk radio with Radio America (not sure of the name) and it fizzled.

What would really be nice is a channel with n bias and no talking heads.

It's not a tv channel, but I like the BBC World News Podcast. Offers decent overview coverage of issues (and not just US news) with what seems like little bias. It doesn't d love very deep, but that's fine for me, I just kind of like a quick overview with what's going on in the world.

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Matt

When people say they want a station without bias, it really means they want one that they agree with. There are unbiased news sources out there, but the vast majority have never searched them out because...they don't support their own bias.

BBC, Al Jazeera, PBS are 3 examples of pretty good news programs that offer a balanced perspective but they don't have a strong following in the U.S because of that.

FIFY

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