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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[–] 110 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Republicans and AIPAC dems are selling out every piece of America and its citizens at record pace since their polling is at record lows

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    [–] 79 points 2 weeks ago

    Allowing the LEADERS OF 9/11 to CONTROL OUR NEWS is putting America First!

    -LITERALLY Republicans!

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  • [–] 64 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

    So basically it's an auction to the highest bidder for control over US media landscape.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

    Gonna be Saudi Arabia taking majority stakes there, no doubt about it.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    If China wanted to they could drown the saudis out

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  • [–] 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    China's game may be to let the rest of the world eat each other and then step in to the chaos left.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    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.

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    [–] 44 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    But wouldn't allow a Chinese company to own a social media site operating in the US.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    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.

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    [–] 23 points 2 weeks ago

    Osama bin Laden is laughing his ass off!

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  • [–] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Finally, I can buy Fox News and turn it into what it was meant to be: 24/7 news about foxes

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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago

    Nice. certain countries I can't mention here can skip the middle man and just own our propoganda outlets directly.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Basically nothing could go wrong, because Israel and the oil lobby already owns all the media lol

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    [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    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.

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    I'd love to see this smug asshole thrown in prison. The way douchenozzles like him pretend they are being above board on everything while gaslighting everyone.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    trump is the FCC. Why show that bald, glasses guy?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    I bet it's the saudis.

    Great crowd to be friends with...

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    This just means that no one watches TV news anymore. God knows, its been 27 years since I have.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Isn’t Rupert Murdock Australian?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Ask any other country, where US money is in every media.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    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

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Late stage capitalism. Line must go up!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Middle Eastern royalty, Putin, and Xi Jinping can now influence US elections just like the US can influence Canadian elections through Postmedia Network. The prize of national lawmaking now goes to the highest international bidder. Very consistent with Jabba the Hutt willing to have the oil industry keeping him "elected".

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    He looks exactly like what you’d expect

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