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kpete

(72,024 posts)
Thu Jan 3, 2013, 02:01 PM Jan 2013

LOL! Glenn Beck tried to buy Current TV

Glenn Beck tried to buy Current TV
By DYLAN BYERS

Before Al-Jazeera, there was Glenn Beck.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Glenn Beck’s media company, The Blaze, approached Current Media about a sale last year, but was told in the words of one source that “the legacy of who the network goes to is important to us and we are sensitive to networks not aligned with our point of view."

The Blaze "reached out to them to buy it," a source familiar with the talks told POLITICO. "They would have replaced Current programming with The Blaze programming, but were told on initial calls that Current wouldn't sell to someone they weren't ideologically in line with."

In explaining the reasons for selling to Al-Jazeera, Current co-founder and CEO Joel Hyatt told the Journal that the Qatari-based broadcaster "was founded with the same goals we had for Current," including "to give voice to those whose voices are not typically heard" and "to speak truth to power."

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/01/glenn-beck-tried-to-buy-current-tv-153232.html

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LOL! Glenn Beck tried to buy Current TV (Original Post) kpete Jan 2013 OP
Selling it to Beck would have been kinda like selling it to Al-Jazeera bongbong Jan 2013 #1
I think the attempted purchase was all a joke. Great Caesars Ghost Jan 2013 #2
 

bongbong

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1. Selling it to Beck would have been kinda like selling it to Al-Jazeera
Thu Jan 3, 2013, 03:14 PM
Jan 2013

Since the organization most in line with Beck's world view & goals is Al-Queda, and the first two letters are also "Al".

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