4388

Sure.

4389

lol

4390

Axios Media has been acquired by Cox Enterprises in a cash deal said to value the digital news company at $525 million.

Media and advertising firm Cox Enterprises had taken a minority stake in Axios in November 2021. The $525 million deal price is about five times Axios’s projected 2022 revenue of more than $100 million, the New York Times reported. Axios had raised $55 million in funding.

Axios was launched in January 2017 by three ex-Politico execs: Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz. It was previously reported that German publishing giant Axel Springer, which owns Insider, was in talks to acquire Axios. Last summer, Axel Springer acquired Politico in a $1 billion-plus deal. Per a Wall Street Journal report last year, Axios was looking to sell for between $400 million and $450 million.

4391

$100 million! That’s a lot of clickbait!

4392

NY Times today:

fck the ny times

4393

“Has Biden Been Too Successful for His Own Good?”

Or maybe better: “Biden Has Done Well, But Has He Done Well Enough?”

4394

Gee? Unpopular? I wonder why? It is truly a mystery that may never be unraveled.

4395

I’m trying to work on my language, but you know my thoughts on the matter!

4396

Survey says… your answer begins with an “F”!

4397

Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler forced to post another retraction to his infamous abortion story from last month. Kessler’s reporting relied on an agency not responding to him – they had in fact responded, Kessler “inadvertently missed” their email.

4398

WaPo Editorial Board editorial headline: Green shoots of governability poke through a scorched political landscape

  1. You don’t have to be a psychic to figure out who wrote that prolix headline.
  2. Go home, George Will, you’re drunk.
4399

didn’t know where else

4400

Terrible. Richard Engel is a national treasure. Always loved his appearances on TRMS.

4401

During a Friday morning editorial meeting, Licht addressed the previous day’s dramatic announcement that CNN is ending its long-running Sunday media analysis show Reliable Sources , and that its star host Brian Stelter will exit the network.

Licht acknowledged internal outrage over Stelter’s ouster, telling staffers, “This is a time of change, and I know that it’s unsettling.” However, the CNN boss cautioned: “There will be more changes and you might not understand it or like it all.”

He further asked staffers to withhold judgment on these future changes: “Give us some time, see how things develop, and then give us feedback.”

Most of Licht’s alterations had been in the form of editorial guidelines: a decreased use of “Breaking News” on-air banners; the use of less partisan terms to describe Trump’s bogus election lies; and a dialing back of partisanship on-air.

Such changes, seen by many as a way to shift CNN into a more moderate voice, have reportedly been met with some internal skepticism.

As such, some insiders viewed Stelter’s exit as being connected to Malone. “Everything about this rollout points to John Malone and Discovery CEO] David Zaslav,” a source familiar with the situation told The Daily Beast on Thursday. “Chris Licht did not want to do this.”

4402

That CNN thinks they can court right wing viewers is probably the weirdest part of that story. That they think they can grab part of Fox’s demographic.

I would say this is bad for the Dems but I don’t think CNN meant anything to the left anyway.

4403

“We want a network for both cats and mice!”

4404

It means a lot to the center though and having them shifting towards the right isn’t a good thing.

4405

“More accommodating to Republican positions”? They already have a regular rotation of Republican assholes to spew their spin and bullshit. Not seeing anything like that on Fox.

4406

I think “we want a network for Buffalo Bill and Ruth Martin” captures the dynamic better. Cats and mice are operating within the normal parameters of reality.

4407

CNN: “Maybe they wont threaten to kill us this time.”

Narrator: “They still threatened to/did kill them.”