Until they took Tucker off the air, Fox News was cruising along—fat, dumb, happy, and raking it in. We don’t know exactly who had the brain fart of an idea to remove Tucker—the key to Fox’s success. Maybe it was the Murdoch children, who are said to be extremely liberal. Somebody didn’t think this one through—at all. They did this stupid thing with a barracuda of an entrepeneur in charge of Twitter and looking for a way to make it work profitably. Tucker could well be Elon Musk’s goose laying golden eggs, and Tucker seems happy to be part of Twitter.
Anytime I hear of a high stakes political court battle, all I can think of is Emmett Sullivan v Michael Flynn. So the abject cynic in me fears the worst, no matter how slam-dunk a case Carlson's may turn out to be.
Mr Musk's tweet saying "no deal" had been signed with Mr Carlson is to me, no big deal.
The same tide raises all ships, and no doubt the two men understand each other in that regard.
More, Twitter Inc becomes X Inc o/a 18 May. X Inc will be rolling out new capabilities, and likely will need new capabilities to host a live 60+minute video show five days a week. This is where the collaboration between the two men occurs. Musk may have said something like, "Come to Twitter and I'll personally ensure you've got whatever you need technologically."
With one show (Carlson's) on the platform, likely others will follow. Sure would be great for Sharryl Atkinson to be more accessible, for instance.
Reading Musk's tweet feed is interesting. Yesterday, someone who has a car dealership podcast (who knew there was such a thing) said having that podcast on Twitter boosted listens by 400%. Now that might be from one listener to four, one hundred to four hundred, or another multiple. The car dealership guy asked for 10 sec rewind, 10 sec fast forward, and several other features to make his podcast more in conformation with currently available capabilities found elsewhere. Musk actually commented on this, strongly suggesting (to me at least) that he supported and would add those capabilities to the Twitter/X platform.
There have been intimations for some time that Musk wanted to turn Twitter into an "everything"platform, a combination of social media, online payment (a la PayPal) etc.
I'm looking forward to the day, which appears to be coming soon, when the business model of legacy "cable" electronic media completely blows up. The upside down, subscriber pays to watch programming that is about 1/2 Pfaudzer/pharma advertisements per hour ain't long for this world. Good riddance to Fox et al, I cancelled my satellite service in 2019, lately my TV watching consists of 30 minutes of local news daily.
"Elon is obviously a man on a mission. Whatever else you may say about him, he is clearly intent on taking down the Establishment that rules America and is driving it into the ground."
Whatever else? Whatever? Sure, I'll bite!
How about, Elon is a Young Global Leader with a track record of fronting for covert ops?
This move makes it harder for Elon to claim that Twitter is neutral, but nobody really believed that anyway. But it helps consolidates control for the emerging new narrative consensus on the right. So... yay?
In terms of Zuckerberg, Mollie Hemingway was all over this story in her great book about 2020 called "Rigged." Today she and her hubby just released an update and big warning called "Unrigging Our Elections." The GOP needs to get off their bloated asses and get all over this TODAY! Trump and Desantis need to smoke the peace pipe and rally the troops for the battle ahead.
I don’t know. I still don’t trust them. The deep dark state will never concede defeat and go quietly into the night. Good times ahead. Exciting time to be alive and witness to history.
Anytime I hear of a high stakes political court battle, all I can think of is Emmett Sullivan v Michael Flynn. So the abject cynic in me fears the worst, no matter how slam-dunk a case Carlson's may turn out to be.
Mr Musk's tweet saying "no deal" had been signed with Mr Carlson is to me, no big deal.
The same tide raises all ships, and no doubt the two men understand each other in that regard.
More, Twitter Inc becomes X Inc o/a 18 May. X Inc will be rolling out new capabilities, and likely will need new capabilities to host a live 60+minute video show five days a week. This is where the collaboration between the two men occurs. Musk may have said something like, "Come to Twitter and I'll personally ensure you've got whatever you need technologically."
With one show (Carlson's) on the platform, likely others will follow. Sure would be great for Sharryl Atkinson to be more accessible, for instance.
Reading Musk's tweet feed is interesting. Yesterday, someone who has a car dealership podcast (who knew there was such a thing) said having that podcast on Twitter boosted listens by 400%. Now that might be from one listener to four, one hundred to four hundred, or another multiple. The car dealership guy asked for 10 sec rewind, 10 sec fast forward, and several other features to make his podcast more in conformation with currently available capabilities found elsewhere. Musk actually commented on this, strongly suggesting (to me at least) that he supported and would add those capabilities to the Twitter/X platform.
There have been intimations for some time that Musk wanted to turn Twitter into an "everything"platform, a combination of social media, online payment (a la PayPal) etc.
I'm looking forward to the day, which appears to be coming soon, when the business model of legacy "cable" electronic media completely blows up. The upside down, subscriber pays to watch programming that is about 1/2 Pfaudzer/pharma advertisements per hour ain't long for this world. Good riddance to Fox et al, I cancelled my satellite service in 2019, lately my TV watching consists of 30 minutes of local news daily.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/05/09/elon-dishes-details-on-tucker-carlson-show-coming-to-twitter-n743405
"Elon is obviously a man on a mission. Whatever else you may say about him, he is clearly intent on taking down the Establishment that rules America and is driving it into the ground."
Whatever else? Whatever? Sure, I'll bite!
How about, Elon is a Young Global Leader with a track record of fronting for covert ops?
https://www.corbettreport.com/musk
Or maybe just, Elon is a front man for spooks, and his money all originally came from sketchy government contracts?
http://mileswmathis.com/musk.pdf
But then again, I suppose Tucker is too. They go great together.
http://mileswmathis.com/tucker2.pdf
This move makes it harder for Elon to claim that Twitter is neutral, but nobody really believed that anyway. But it helps consolidates control for the emerging new narrative consensus on the right. So... yay?
In terms of Zuckerberg, Mollie Hemingway was all over this story in her great book about 2020 called "Rigged." Today she and her hubby just released an update and big warning called "Unrigging Our Elections." The GOP needs to get off their bloated asses and get all over this TODAY! Trump and Desantis need to smoke the peace pipe and rally the troops for the battle ahead.
https://americanmind.org/salvo/unrigging-our-elections/
I don’t know. I still don’t trust them. The deep dark state will never concede defeat and go quietly into the night. Good times ahead. Exciting time to be alive and witness to history.
And the Elon/Tucker news came out at exactly the same time as the Trump/Carroll verdict...that's funny
I may have been on to something:
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/05/09/new-tucker-carlson-accuses-fox-of-fraud-and-breach-of-contract-n743347
Tucker Carlson's Lawyers Send 'Aggressive' Letter Accusing Fox of Fraud, Breach of Contract