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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA REMINDER: Larry Ellison was a 100% flaming assh*le LONG BEFORE Elon Musk got his first hair plugs.
I'd say Ellison is WORSE THAN MUSK because he's been AT IT LONGER.
He sued the city of San Jose CA because they placed restrictions on how late at night he could land his private jet.
This inspired the riddle, "What's the difference between Jesus and Larry Ellison?"
(answer...Jesus doesn't think he's Larry Ellison).
I'd say Ellison sinking his talons into CNN (via ponying up the money for his nepo baby moron puppet son) is significantly more concerning than Musk destroying Twitter.
Even though there are people who "believe everything they read on the Internet," Twitter was getting bad vibes from the public at large for conspiracy theories when it was still called Twitter.
And folks on DU have an awareness of the "shift to the right" that CNN has made, but I'd say the general public still sees CNN as CNN and doesn't think too much about the whataboutism and Republican talking points guests.
Having Larry Ellison involved in the media is never a good thing. Never.
dalton99a
(93,408 posts)Henry203
(911 posts)In the IT community.
erronis
(23,438 posts)I think he and trump are on a par for not honoring contracts and forcing obnoxious terms on anyone who he deals with.
Nasruddin
(1,219 posts)He made some pretty amazing boats back in the day ... not that you'd want to be on them, but they could sure move.
newdeal2
(5,206 posts)If the AI bubble bursts, there goes a bunch of his wealth and power.
Lithos
(26,624 posts)So, his earthly demise is not something to necessarily pin hopes on.
Miles Archer
(22,578 posts)Trump could "go the Jerry Lewis route"...(got really mean at the end of his life, confrontational, combative, surly, and excluded six sons from his first marriage from his will.
We don't know what he'll do, because he's so erratic, so impulsive. He's also a sadist. He could easily throw a wrench in Don Jr's "ambition" to be "the heir to the throne" just because it's the kind of act of cruelty that he'd find appealing.
I remember a TV show during George W Bush's second term that included Lynne Cheney and Barbara Bush. Lynne just didn't "get it" at all. People didn't call her husband "Evil Dick Cheney" out of affection. They did it because they thought he had a truly black heart. And she told Laura Bush that if people "really wanted a Bush dynasty," she should run for president.
And if history has shown us anything, it's that America really didn't want a Bush dynasty.
Ellison's son David really seems like a George W Bush idiot type of nepo baby. Once daddy's money buys all of the shiny broadcast channels for him, it will be his empire to screw up. The only thing that's kept CNN from completely going into the toilet as Warner Discovery CEO David Zaslav and his radical right billionaire boy pal John Malone call the shots is that while they have demanded a swing to the right...while they do traffic in "whataboutism" and have far too many Republican guests for a channel that isn't Fox...they still PRETEND that they are the same CNN that existed before Zaslav and Malone got the keys to the car.
David Ellison installed a creepy little "opinion blogger" who is far too reminiscent of Aileen Cannon as the head of CBS news, and she propped up Katy Tur's MAGAt husband as the network's "star anchor," and we see what happened to the ratings as a result.
Murdoch found a disgusting but "winning" formula for Fox. I'm gonna be shocked it Ellison "succeeds" by doing nothing more than replicating Murdoch's formula. OR the formula of Zaslav & Malone, on a more MAGAt-y scale, because even with the changes at CNN, Trump STILL yells about them for not kissing his ass enough.
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