Comcast has announced it intends to realign its corporate oversight of NBCUniversal, creating major implications for networks such as MSNBC and CNBC.
The former has been under particularly scrutiny over the past year; a major shift to the left, openly admitted by a producer at the news network, has seen interest in left-wing media coverage plummet in the wake of the presidential election.
Under the new corporate structure, MSNBC and CNBC will technically be owned by different companies within the Comcast umbrella. In short, it’s selling the networks to a new company it has created, effectively differentiating the two from the remainder of Comcast’s content.
The development has led to jovial speculation regarding a potential sale of MSNBC. Speculation over the future of a network which employs the likes of Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow has grown jovially on social media, with some – including Donald Trump Jr. – suggesting Elon Musk purchase the network.
Maddow has already had to take a $5 million pay cut amid the network’s struggles.
Musk inquired how much the network would cost in response to the President-elect’s son on X, who claimed a takeover would be the “funniest idea ever”. Musk later added, “The most entertaining outcome, especially if ironic, is most likely,” with a laughing emoji as if to suggest interest in a potential purchase.
The most entertaining outcome, especially if ironic, is most likely
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 22, 2024https://t.co/YX2EznXfoF
Many remembered the business magnate’s initial interest in Twitter.
Please bring the sink right into Rachel Maddow’s studio
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— Marjorie Taylor Greene Press Release (Parody) (@MTGrepp) November 22, 2024
Others expected a personnel change on MSNBC should Musk purchase the network.
And let Tucker Carlson run it.
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— FIGHT (@Similac6) November 22, 2024
Buy it, keep Rachel Maddow, and fact check her every time she lies. It would be very entertaining.
The Left would go INSANE if this happened!
I don’t think they could get anymore insane than they are now.
Why Musk or anyone else want to buy this mess ? Just let them dwindle down and go broke. If someone actually wanted to buy it the best plan would be to wait and let them go broke then scoop it up for pennies on the dollar. If their viewership continues to go down it will not be long.
Musk would get Must Sell Network Before Christmas for what the marker will bear. Jeff Bezos might come up with an offer
Possibly, but Bezos is poor compared to Musk. Depends upon how much each one wants it and is willing to spend on a vanity buy.
nice
He should, and push it as far left as humanly possible, to highlight just how crazy they truly are.
Musk could get Must Sell Network Before Christmas for the same amount that Newsweek sold for in 2010. The ratings presently for the network are far below the reruns of Gilligan’s Island, that he might get it for less.
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