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BumRushDaShow

(142,213 posts)
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 05:35 AM Sep 30

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/

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Left Wing Group Media Matters 'Diligently' Considers Buying -- InfoWars? REPORT (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 30 OP
K&R SupportSanity Sep 30 #1
New around here teran Sep 30 #12
K & R means " Kick & Recommend". It's a reply to a thread to keep it visible. sueh Sep 30 #15
Thank you! teran Sep 30 #16
Kick and Recomend (Rec).... reACTIONary Sep 30 #17
Kick & Recommend - Kick keeps it visible - (REC) Recommend, well means just that - but doesn't keep it visible SupportSanity Sep 30 #18
Oh, let the irony flow. eppur_se_muova Sep 30 #2
Hope Tesla and X are available in a similar offering soon ./nt bucolic_frolic Sep 30 #3
Good, hopefully there's enough content there to bring down the bulk of rightwing ideology. Think. Again. Sep 30 #4
That would be great! Vinca Sep 30 #5
i hope they don't pay too much. a few old microphones and a server or 2 are not worth much rampartd Sep 30 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author Backseat Driver Sep 30 #19
I wonder what would happen to wing nuts Turbineguy Sep 30 #7
They wouldn't understand any of it. rubbersole Sep 30 #8
They literally are confused by coherent, LuvLoogie Sep 30 #9
Why help him pay off Sandy Hook? The Grand Illuminist Sep 30 #10
DU complains about "messaging" BumRushDaShow Sep 30 #11
Any money flowing to the victims' families... PAMod Sep 30 #13
Liquidating assets to meet court ordered monetary judgments is common. rubbersole Sep 30 #14
One result could be the un-plugging of the all the CT broadcast by exposing the roots of it in the original sources. Ford_Prefect Sep 30 #20

teran

(57 posts)
12. New around here
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 08:29 AM
Sep 30

And I see K&R a fair bit. Google has been no help explaining what it means. Kidnap and Ransom? 🫠

reACTIONary

(6,007 posts)
17. Kick and Recomend (Rec)....
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 08:44 AM
Sep 30

.... The "algorithm" promotes posts based on recs and on number of responses. So a perfunctory response is a Kick".

SupportSanity

(1,111 posts)
18. Kick & Recommend - Kick keeps it visible - (REC) Recommend, well means just that - but doesn't keep it visible
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 08:47 AM
Sep 30

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)
2. Oh, let the irony flow.
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 05:39 AM
Sep 30

May the right wing disinfosphere become utterly clogged with all the bad karma scraped from the bottom of this barrel.

rampartd

(316 posts)
6. i hope they don't pay too much. a few old microphones and a server or 2 are not worth much
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 06:54 AM
Sep 30

i can't even guess what a few old files on gay frogs or bigfoot are good for.

Response to rampartd (Reply #6)

Turbineguy

(38,372 posts)
7. I wonder what would happen to wing nuts
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 06:54 AM
Sep 30

if they turned on their radio and instead of paranoia and hate, they heard sanity.

LuvLoogie

(7,542 posts)
9. They literally are confused by coherent,
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 08:15 AM
Sep 30

critical thought and argument.

DJT's thoughts and speeches are like a bag of jelly beans. That's what they want.

BumRushDaShow

(142,213 posts)
11. DU complains about "messaging"
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 08:27 AM
Sep 30

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)
13. Any money flowing to the victims' families...
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 08:29 AM
Sep 30

would be a good thing, right?

Plus, now I want to see what they find.

rubbersole

(8,503 posts)
14. Liquidating assets to meet court ordered monetary judgments is common.
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 08:29 AM
Sep 30

Media Matters would be looking for "smoking guns" of rw intentional disinformation. For virtually pennies on the dollar. Just good investigating journalism.

Ford_Prefect

(8,202 posts)
20. One result could be the un-plugging of the all the CT broadcast by exposing the roots of it in the original sources.
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 11:07 AM
Sep 30
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