Discussion: Jon Stewart Wants You To Help Him Kick In $10 Billion To Buy CNN (VIDEO)

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I am sure he thinks it is a joke, but why not? Why should conservative billionaires own all the information channels.

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Looking at the options, I see a ‘Hunger Games’ option featuring Wolfie Blitzer. I for one would gladly pay good money to take my hunting bow into that episode. Bagging Wolfie Blitzer would only improve the quality of TV journalism by a few zillion percent, in one fell swoop.

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$10 gets you a Richard Quest sex date…BYO rope and meth.

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I have to admit it is food for thought.

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People still get their news from Cable news stations? No one I know watches CNN. I don’t even have a bookmark for their website. Fox has viewers, but that demographic will have cable forever. Young people…not so much.

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So what’s the over/under when Murdoch controls every media outlet in the world? 2025?

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Murdoch will be dead long before then, and he has no successor with the same chutzpah. As soon as he no longer runs things, his empire will balkanize.