Left Wing Group Media Matters 'Diligently' Considers Buying -- InfoWars? REPORT

[BumRushDaShow]

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. K&R

[teran]

12. New around here

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

[sueh]

15. K & R means " Kick & Recommend". It's a reply to a thread to keep it visible.

Welcome to DU

[teran]

16. Thank you!

That makes so much more sense than all of the things I was guessing! 🤣

[reACTIONary]

17. Kick and Recomend (Rec)....

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

[SupportSanity]

18. Kick & Recommend - Kick keeps it visible - (REC) Recommend, well means just that - but doesn't keep it visible

Welcome to DU.

There are lots of other acronyms in use here. Feel free to ask. It's a good group.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Oh, let the irony flow.

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

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Hope Tesla and X are available in a similar offering soon ./nt

[Think. Again.]

4. Good, hopefully there's enough content there to bring down the bulk of rightwing ideology.

[Vinca]

5. That would be great!

[rampartd]

6. i hope they don't pay too much. a few old microphones and a server or 2 are not worth much

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

[Turbineguy]

7. I wonder what would happen to wing nuts

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

[rubbersole]

8. They wouldn't understand any of it.

[LuvLoogie]

9. They literally are confused by coherent,

critical thought and argument.

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

[The Grand Illuminist]

10. Why help him pay off Sandy Hook?

Don't make sense.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. DU complains about "messaging"

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]

13. Any money flowing to the victims' families...

would be a good thing, right?

Plus, now I want to see what they find.

[rubbersole]

14. Liquidating assets to meet court ordered monetary judgments is common.

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

[Ford_Prefect]

20. One result could be the un-plugging of the all the CT broadcast by exposing the roots of it in the original sources.