Is this the end for Blitzer and Company.

[Dr.Phool]

I sure hope so. Someone with very deep pockets needs to take over CNN.


http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/15/news/fortune500/buffett_investments/?cnn=yes


NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Billionaire investors Warren Buffett and George Soros are getting hooked up with cable.

Filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission show Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway (Research), doubled its holdings in Comcast Corp. (Research), the nation's largest cable operator to 10 million shares, during the fourth quarter, while it dumped its shares in hospital operator HCA (Research) and slashed its holdings in athletic apparel manufacturer Nike (Research).

Soros Fund Management LLC disclosed in its own SEC filing that as of Dec. 31, it owned 2.6 million shares of Time Warner (Research), owner of Time Warner Cable, the nation's No. 2 cable operator, as well as a host of other media properties, including CNN/Money. It had no shares in Time Warner at the end of the third quarter.

[Bronco69]

1. I sure as hell hope so!

I miss watching the news but I'll be damned if I'll tune into their propaganda. Maybe Buffet and Soros will start their own news network and I can tune in to normal news again.

[LittleClarkie]

2. I wonder if this explains why Time/Warner donated blue this year

I wonder if they normally give to Dems over Repubs.

[Hatalles]

3. Have they publicly come out and said anything about a possible network?

[Dr.Phool]

4. Not that I'm aware of

This is the first I've heard.

[NewJeffCT]

5. hypothetical - who would the con version of Alan Colmes on liberal news?

Who would be the liberal network's Conservative voice, a la Alan Colmes as the so-called "liberal" on Fox? Andrew Sullivan?

[kohodog]

7. NewJeff, Lieberman's gonna need a job!

Or is he too far rught for that position?

[NewJeffCT]

8. Somebody along the Lieberman line may be ok

But, Lieberman is still listed as a Democrat. Somebody more along the lines of Snowe or Collins in ME - listed as a Republican, but is much more less conservative than the rest of the party. I don't know how those two would play on TV, though.

[ClintonTyree]

6. Leslie would merely............

turn tail and become anyone or anything his employers wanted him to be. He's a whore. If CNN went "Blue" Leslie would go down on whoever was at the reins of power to keep his job.

People, Leslie is a whore. He'll blow anybody that's holding the purse strings without a second thought.