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It's Official: News Corp to Buy DirecTV
Guppy06 writes "According to this Washington Post article, the heads at both News Corporation (owners of Fox) and DirecTV have agreed to a $6.6 billion deal to secure the purchase of DirecTV by News, with GM getting a little less than half of that total in cash. All that remains now is the actual exchange. For the record, EchoStar was going to pay $30 billion before the FCC shot them down."
I think Murdoch has a ways to go to catch up.
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. - Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
Because we can prove it:
Mmm, propaganda
"I only speak the truth"
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What are you going on about? is the US the only country on planet earth with the "private owned only" fixation? Just look at the average yank and their understanding of world affairs. If the average yank saw that when they choose a president the rest of the world suffers as a result, maybe we wouldn't get half-witts like GWB being voted in, or better yet, we might actually have some Americans exercise their democratic right and vote instead of relying on 30% of the voting public to turn out and hopefully represent their views.
I find you comment rather rich coming from a person who doesn't even have the balls to register for a slashdot account. When I see posts like yours it makes "in Soviet Russia..." posts actually humorous.
As for the US government, interesting that the US mentioned in the briefing Stalin, Lenin and so forth, yet, they never mention the dozen or so dictators that the US supported during the cold war. Pinoche would be the prime example. It seems that when it is covenient for the US, they'll slam the bible down and declare all outside the border to be corrupt and that GWB, the whiite night of US is going to slain the "evil dictators" of the world and save the people of the worl from themselves.
Just look at the childish language over the latest year by GWB, "Axis of Evil", "the game is up", "show your cards" and other diatripe. The lack of any intellectuals in the US administration makes me fairful that the most powerful nation of earth has fallen into the hands of a few rabbid right wing, christian fundamentalist nutcases who have a theocratic view of the world comparable to the Iranian regeme.
Maybe it is about time the US government went back and studied the core of Relpolitik and start using it once more then we'll see some real discussion and debate happen.
You silly pup. "The Liberal Media" was being lambasted in National Review before Rush picked up his first microphone. You are either too young to know better or are a aging hippy who carefully managed to avoid all opposing views until Rush & Fox got in your face, as conservatives learned ways to compete by ceasing to try for a fair hearing in a hopelessly biased set of media outlets and instead built their own.
Democrat delenda est