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The Official Thread Dedicated to "Trump Winning"

This is huge.

Media's MAGA makeover​

Trump-friendly billionaires are consolidating control over American media, steering legacy brands and social platforms in a new conservative direction.

Why it matters: The media landscape of 2016 is unrecognizable. Once dominated by critics of President Trump, today's fragmented ecosystem is increasingly controlled — or threatened — by forces aligned with the White House.

Driving the news: ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel off air "indefinitely" on Wednesday in response to the late-night host's comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination.
  • The extraordinary move came after Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr warned ABC that it could face fines or license revocations if it did not "operate in the public interest."
  • Trump celebrated Kimmel's removal — just as he did CBS's decision to cancel Stephen Colbert's show — and called for NBC to take action against remaining late-night hosts Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon.
The big picture: The media's MAGA makeover is unfolding on two fronts — high-profile acquisitions that give Trump allies control of marquee platforms, and quieter rebrands that soften once-critical coverage or policies.

1. Acquisitions: No modern media deal has more profoundly reshaped U.S. politics than Elon Musk's 2022 takeover of Twitter (now X), which turned the digital town square into a platform dominated by MAGA voices.
  • It soon may be eclipsed by another seismic deal: Oracle, chaired by Trump ally Larry Ellison, is seeking to take control of TikTok's U.S. operations as part of a consortium that includes Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz.
  • The proposal — if green-lit by China — could give one of Trump's billionaire allies unprecedented sway over a platform central to youth culture and political organizing.
Meanwhile, Skydance's acquisition of Paramount this summer handed Ellison's son, David, control of CBS News, where he appointed a conservative ombudsman to review complaints about the network's coverage.
  • Paramount-Skydance is in advanced talks to acquire Bari Weiss' conservative news site, The Free Press, and give her a senior editorial role at CBS.
  • The Ellisons are also working on a cash bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns CNN — potentially putting two of America's most iconic TV news brands under the purview of one Trump-aligned family.
2. Rebrands: Major tech and media executives made a series of overtures to Trump in the wake of the 2024 election, promising a more conciliatory approach toward his second administration.
  • Meta's Mark Zuckerberg pivoted hard after years of tensions — appointing Trump allies to top jobs and eliminating the platform's fact-checking program as part of a slate of changes targeting "censorship."
  • Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos killed the paper's endorsement of then-Vice President Harris and announced in February that its opinion page would shift its mission to promote "personal liberties and free markets."
  • L.A. Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong spiked his paper's Harris endorsement and vowed on Fox News to balance out his editorial board with conservative voices......
 
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The intrigue: Univision, the largest Spanish-language broadcaster in the U.S. and onetime left-leaning voice for Latinos, has ingratiated itself with the Trump administration under its new owner, Mexican media giant Televisa.
  • The Baltimore Sun, Maryland's largest newspaper, has shifted notably to the right since being sold to David Smith, the executive chairman of conservative local broadcaster Sinclair.
  • Public MAGA media companies like Newsmax have seen valuations skyrocket by riding the "meme stock" wave initiated by Trump Media, which owns the president's Truth Social platform.
Between the lines: Mainstream outlets that remain adversarial to Trump have come under heavy financial, political and regulatory pressure.
  • Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times this week, claiming the paper is a "full-throated mouthpiece of the Democrat Party."
  • He's also accused ABC and NBC of functioning as arms of the Democratic Party, and said last month he would be "in favor" of the FCC pulling their broadcast licenses.
  • The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was forced to shut down after Congress cut nearly $1.1 billion in federal funding for PBS and NPR, which Trump had accused of liberal bias.
Reality check: Even amid the tectonic shifts, America's newsrooms are still producing hard-hitting, independent journalism.
  • Trump is actively suing his ally Rupert Murdoch over The Wall Street Journal's coverage of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — a reminder that friendly ownership doesn't guarantee friendly coverage.
 
Tim Steelersfan said:
This is huge.

Media's MAGA makeover​

Trump-friendly billionaires are consolidating control over American media, steering legacy brands and social platforms in a new conservative direction.
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Lotta billionaires are Liberals because they think that since they're rich they're smarter than everyone else (Bill Gates, George Soros, two real-life James Bond villians) and they will be in charge.
More sensible billionaires (Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Jamie Dimon) are recognizing that the Democrat Party base has turned Communist and eventually will be coming for them and their companies.
 
Tim Steelersfan said:
LOL



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The democrat party needs to go extinct like the dinosaurs. They've allowed the far left wing to completely consume that party.

Which has zero moral compass because they believe they are the highest power and believe in nothing higher than government.

That will NEVER jive with our constitution and basic decency.

It's a terminal cancer. They'll have to start over.

We still desperately need term limits, but that will never happen by their own hand.

None of them are ever voting themselves out of power. The gig is too sweet. It's the ultimate get rich quick scheme.
 
Steelr4evr said:
The democrat party needs to go extinct like the dinosaurs. They've allowed the far left wing to completely consume that party.

Which has zero moral compass because they believe they are the highest power and believe in nothing higher than government.

That will NEVER jive with our constitution and basic decency.

It's a terminal cancer. They'll have to start over.

We still desperately need term limits, but that will never happen by their own hand.

None of them are ever voting themselves out of power. The gig is too sweet. It's the ultimate get rich quick scheme.
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not being a word nazi,, but i believe the term you mean is jibe.
 
Black & Gold Bleeder said:
not being a word nazi,, but i believe the term you mean is jibe.
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It obviously tripped your switches...lol.Duly noted. I'm not perfect or maybe jive talkin or even gibe talkin.

There,there's, their,they're.

For future reference.
I almost never proof read and I type with fat thumbs on a tiny screen that I half *** see.

I'll do better. I hope you still got my point even after that egregious error.
 
Steelr4evr said:
The democrat party needs to go extinct like the dinosaurs. They've allowed the far left wing to completely consume that party.

Which has zero moral compass because they believe they are the highest power and believe in nothing higher than government.

That will NEVER jive with our constitution and basic decency.

It's a terminal cancer. They'll have to start over.

We still desperately need term limits, but that will never happen by their own hand.

None of them are ever voting themselves out of power. The gig is too sweet. It's the ultimate get rich quick scheme.
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Jimmy Failla said something very profound yesterday.
(Paraphrasing) "In their effort to keep the Republicans from having any short-term victories, the Democrats are doing long-term damage to their party."
 
Black & Gold Bleeder said:
not being a word nazi,, but i believe the term you mean is jibe.
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I'm at the Pubbie state committee meeting. It's 11:39 pm and not the first time I've closed down a hotel bar. Hotel is weak.
At least they had Troeg's Perpetual IPA. Outstanding session IPA and made in Pennsylvania.
 
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SteelerInLebanon said:
No more dynasties. I want fresh names and faces not, Trumps, Bushes Clintons etc.
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Depends what they do and what they stand for. I did not vote for W. Bush, McCain, or Romney in the primaries or Trump in the 2016 primary.
As I said to some fellow Pubbies from another county at the state meeting last night, we're in a place where the worst Republican is still better than the best Democrat.
Of course the Dems feel the same way about us.
 
Russia, Russia, Russia Debunked. These 'journalists' need their Pulitzers revoked. Comey and Schiff should be behind bars.

Weaponized Scoops: New Russiagate Documents Expose Media/Government Collusion​

Recently declassified documents indicate that people close to former FBI Director James Comey and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff were connected to leaks of classified information to prominent reporters designed to portray Donald Trump and his allies as being in league with Russia.  

Written in 2017, the FBI documents expose how selected Washington reporters, including Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post and Michael Schmidt of the New York Times, scored a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning scoops in 2017 by repeating false and inflammatory leaks during President Trump’s first term.  

Much of their reporting has been debunked – and shown to be part of a smear campaign by high-ranking officials to undermine Trump, but the identities of those leakers have remained hidden because of the government’s apparent unwillingness to expose its own and the refusal of reporters to identify the people who misled them and the nation.   

Although the heavily redacted recent disclosures do not specifically identify the suspected leakers, an RCI analysis of the documents strongly suggests that people close to Comey and Schiff, among others, were feeding the reporters information to advance the Russiagate hoax.  

The documents reveal a cascade of misdeeds and failures. These include the effort of government officials to create and leak misleading classified information to favored reporters and the failure of reporters to scrutinize the information they were given before rushing it into print; and the subsequent failure of federal investigators to hold anyone accountable for the breaches of security.  

The documents also detail the incestuous nature of media-government relationships inside the D.C. Beltway. In some cases, spouses and friends of government officials and reporters were used to spread damaging misinformation about Trump, making it difficult for federal investigators to follow the trail of illegal disclosures.

‘Topple the Administration’
The new disclosures include the previously sealed testimony of an FBI informant who’d worked on the Democratic side of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for more than a decade, who told agents that “all hell broke loose” after Trump’s surprising 2016 election win. In February 2017, he asserted, Schiff, then a House member, hatched a plan to weaponize U.S. intelligence to smear Trump in the media as a Kremlin conspirator with the goal of triggering his impeachment. Schiff was the ranking Democratic member of the committee at the time.  

[more inside the article...headline is linked]



“All of these cozy friendships of leakers and leaker recipients, many of whom are married to each other, are precisely why reporters adore hiding their sourcing behind walls of ‘senior administration officials’ or ‘senior U.S. officials’ and associated disguises,” said Tim Graham, director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, a Washington-based journalism watchdog group.
 
Tim Steelersfan said:
Russia, Russia, Russia Debunked. These 'journalists' need their Pulitzers revoked. Comey and Schiff should be behind bars.

Weaponized Scoops: New Russiagate Documents Expose Media/Government Collusion​

Recently declassified documents indicate that people close to former FBI Director James Comey and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff were connected to leaks of classified information to prominent reporters designed to portray Donald Trump and his allies as being in league with Russia.  

Written in 2017, the FBI documents expose how selected Washington reporters, including Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post and Michael Schmidt of the New York Times, scored a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning scoops in 2017 by repeating false and inflammatory leaks during President Trump’s first term.  

Much of their reporting has been debunked – and shown to be part of a smear campaign by high-ranking officials to undermine Trump, but the identities of those leakers have remained hidden because of the government’s apparent unwillingness to expose its own and the refusal of reporters to identify the people who misled them and the nation.   

Although the heavily redacted recent disclosures do not specifically identify the suspected leakers, an RCI analysis of the documents strongly suggests that people close to Comey and Schiff, among others, were feeding the reporters information to advance the Russiagate hoax.  

The documents reveal a cascade of misdeeds and failures. These include the effort of government officials to create and leak misleading classified information to favored reporters and the failure of reporters to scrutinize the information they were given before rushing it into print; and the subsequent failure of federal investigators to hold anyone accountable for the breaches of security.  

The documents also detail the incestuous nature of media-government relationships inside the D.C. Beltway. In some cases, spouses and friends of government officials and reporters were used to spread damaging misinformation about Trump, making it difficult for federal investigators to follow the trail of illegal disclosures.

‘Topple the Administration’
The new disclosures include the previously sealed testimony of an FBI informant who’d worked on the Democratic side of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for more than a decade, who told agents that “all hell broke loose” after Trump’s surprising 2016 election win. In February 2017, he asserted, Schiff, then a House member, hatched a plan to weaponize U.S. intelligence to smear Trump in the media as a Kremlin conspirator with the goal of triggering his impeachment. Schiff was the ranking Democratic member of the committee at the time.  

[more inside the article...headline is linked]



“All of these cozy friendships of leakers and leaker recipients, many of whom are married to each other, are precisely why reporters adore hiding their sourcing behind walls of ‘senior administration officials’ or ‘senior U.S. officials’ and associated disguises,” said Tim Graham, director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, a Washington-based journalism watchdog group.
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Daffy finds this compelling, however......
 
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