Posted on 02/04/2015 12:21:37 PM PST by Enlightened1
Few individual investors have quite as much capital to deploy as Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia. Through his Kingdom Holding , he holds significant stakes in companies including Citigroup C -0.41%, Twitter TWTR +1.28% and, until recently, News Corporation.
The Prince hasnt sold out completely he still owns about 1% of the company, as well as a separate 6.6% shareholding in 21st Century Fox Inc which in itself is worth about $1.7 billion but he previously also held 6.6% of News Corp NWSA 0%, or a total of 13.184 million class B shares. Hes shed all but two million of them.
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Fox hasn’t been doing a good enough job of promoting Islamic propaganda.
Frantzie was a nut who kept telling bizarre tales of Islam controlling Fox, and his golfing in Iceland or something, and always about not watching TV, but with a nutty passion that the rest of us non-TV watchers don’t share, or even were able to make sense of.
Exactly, RINO loving, tea party hating, big government vaccination loving Fox News Channel.
Wow, the article said that on the first day of broadcasting, they put the Bahrani opposition on the air, and the Government shut them down - first day.
I guess that every media outlet has its political orientation, we will have to see where this one stands.
No doubt there are big start up costs for a whole network with programming. I assume that is why he sold off News Corp stock. Probably freeing up cash for the new venture, without overweighting his portfolio in media.
That was the idiot I was thinking of! He was on FR all of six months before getting the boot. He lived in Santa Cruz, stopped watching television in 2009, thinks Donald Trump is a Christian (maybe because he gets so many Bibles in the mail), and described himself as a "lapsed Catholic". Around the time he was banned, Frantzie posted elsewhere that Free Republic was "a Saudi funded phony parody site", wherein half of the posters use fake accounts to mock real conservatives.
Or perhaps you get a more suggestible audience for your propaganda on the other networks.
Or perhaps you get a more suggestible audience for your propaganda on the other networks.
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