Posted on 10/07/2009 8:29:24 PM PDT by Nachum
Egyptian-born Jewish businessman Haim Saban is negotiating with Qatar's emir the purchase of 50 percent of the Al Jazeera television network, the independent Egyptian newspaper Al-Mesryoon reported earlier this week.
Saban was first reported to be negotiating the purchase of half the Doha -based network in 2004, after visiting the emirate with former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
The media mogul, estimated to be worth more than $3 billion, brought the Power Rangers franchise to the Arab world and made a fortune out of developing and selling the Fox Family cable network together with News Corp. In Israel, Saban owns a controlling stake in Bezeq.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Here’s hoping that Saban brings some balance to that network.
I love irony, oh the sweet irony.
I guess they won’t be showing “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” during sweeps week next year.
Won’t happen. He is the foil to get the bidding higher. He is happy to bring the bidding up for the network. Ya let’s raise the sale price to the arabs.
I believe he is an uber-Liberal!
“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
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