Left Wing Group Media Matters 'Diligently' Considers Buying -- InfoWars? REPORT
Source: MEDIAite
Sep 29th, 2024, 10:13 pm
Media Matters for America is considering purchasing InfoWars after a Texas judge ruled the outlet could be liquidated to pay the families of the victims of the 2012 shooting in Sandy Hook, Semafor reported Sunday.
Texas and Connecticut courts found Alex Jones liable for paying the families $1.5 billion in damages for repeatedly claiming the shooting never happened. On Tuesday, judge in Houston ruled that Free Speech Systems, the parent company of InfoWars, could be liquidated and put up for auction.
On Sunday, Semafor reported that multiple liberal and nonprofit organizations are exploring bidding on InfoWars, including the left-leaning media watchdog group, Media Matters. We are diligently considering this acquisition, Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters, said in a statement to Semafor. Carusone also noted that the organization would consider examining InfoWars archives to see what the outlet has not published.
Carusone concluded, As we saw with the Tucker tapes, the archives could contain un-broadcasted material that ends up having real news value not schadenfreude but actually useful information.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/left-wing-group-media-matters-diligently-considers-buying-infowars-report/
SupportSanity
(1,111 posts)teran
(57 posts)And I see K&R a fair bit. Google has been no help explaining what it means. Kidnap and Ransom? 🫠
sueh
(1,870 posts)Welcome to DU
That makes so much more sense than all of the things I was guessing! 🤣
reACTIONary
(6,007 posts).... The "algorithm" promotes posts based on recs and on number of responses. So a perfunctory response is a Kick".
SupportSanity
(1,111 posts)Welcome to DU.
There are lots of other acronyms in use here. Feel free to ask. It's a good group.
eppur_se_muova
(37,388 posts)May the right wing disinfosphere become utterly clogged with all the bad karma scraped from the bottom of this barrel.
bucolic_frolic
(46,970 posts)Think. Again.
(17,905 posts)Vinca
(51,024 posts)rampartd
(316 posts)i can't even guess what a few old files on gay frogs or bigfoot are good for.
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Turbineguy
(38,372 posts)if they turned on their radio and instead of paranoia and hate, they heard sanity.
rubbersole
(8,503 posts)LuvLoogie
(7,542 posts)critical thought and argument.
DJT's thoughts and speeches are like a bag of jelly beans. That's what they want.
The Grand Illuminist
(1,631 posts)Don't make sense.
BumRushDaShow
(142,213 posts)and one cannot "message" when one has no "megaphone".
George Soros (or probably more accurately, his son) have been in the process of buying Audacy and all its stations (200+ that were mostly CBS radio affiliates). In fact, just checking on the progress and that buy has apparently set off 🚨 🚨ALARM BELLS 🚨🚨 among the RW-loonosphere!!
https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-launches-investigation-into-fcc-for-apparent-fast-tracking-of-soros-fund-managements-purchase-of-audacy-radio-network/
What the plans are for that are unknown, but there is a need to "own" some media and stop whining about the M$M and their poor, RW narrative-skewed programming, including a lack of proper coverage of all things "liberal and progressive".
PAMod
(933 posts)would be a good thing, right?
Plus, now I want to see what they find.
rubbersole
(8,503 posts)Media Matters would be looking for "smoking guns" of rw intentional disinformation. For virtually pennies on the dollar. Just good investigating journalism.