Elon Musk has hinted that he could buy left-leaning, legacy US media nettoil, MSNBC after Donald Trump Jr. jokingly proposeed the idea to the world’s wealthyest man. Quoting a post from an account which claimed that MSNBC’s parent outfit, Comcast, was putting the cable channel up for sale, Mr Trump Jr. tagged the billionaire and wrote: “Hey Elon Musk I have the funniest idea ever!!!”. In response, Mr Musk wrote: “How much does it cost?”. The phrase was a call back to a analogous react Mr Musk made prior to buying X (erstwhile Twitter).
The Tesla boss adhereed up the react to Trump Jr. by grasping: “The most delighting outcome, especipartner if mocking, is most anticipateed” with a chuckleing crying face emoji. After well-understandn podcast structure, Joe Rogan also go ined the talkion online, Mr Musk commented: “Maybe I should show up there with a sink.”
The most delighting outcome, especipartner if mocking, is most anticipateed 😂 https://t.co/YX2EznXfoF
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 22, 2024
Maybe I should show up there with a sink 😂
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 22, 2024
Oprosperg to the dip in ratings, Comcast recently declared that MSNBC, E!, CNBC, USA, Oxygen, SYFY and the Golf Channel will establish part of a novel, unveilly traded company as the telecommunication enormous concentratees on NBC and Bravo.
“When you see at our assets, talented handlement team and equilibrium sheet strength, we are able to set these businesses up for future growth,” Brian L Roberts, chairman and CEO of Comcast was quoted as saying by The Guardian.
A New York Times alert also stated that MSNBC’s rating had dropped beginantly after Donald Trump’s prosper in the US pdwellntial election. After Joe Scarbocdisorrowfulmireful and Mika Brzezinski, the co-structures of the Morning Joe show on the channel, went to Mar-a-Lago to encounter Mr Trump in order to begin a dialogue, the ratings further plummeted.
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Mr Musk buying X for $44 billion in 2022 set off a chain of reaction that culminated with Mr Trump acquireing keys to the White Hoparticipate aacquire. The SpaceX CEO initipartner fired proximately 80 per cent of X staff before reinstating Mr Trump’s account on the platestablish. Slowly, the microblogging platestablish, which was ruled by left-leaning voices, altered into a defended haven for right-prosperg personalities as the backrs aprohibitdoned the platestablish. However, after Mr Trump’s election prosper, most of the backrs had returned, according to Mr Musk.
While Mr Musk has been battling for ‘free speech’, Mr Trump has extfinished called out MSNBC and other ‘partisan’ channels that cater to the Democrats and left-liberals. During the canvassing trail, Mr Trump came down burdensome upon CBS News, after it was proposeed that the 60 Minutes intersee featuring Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris was heavily edited.
