He Paved The Way For CNN FOX NEWS And The Internet , He’s Not Sure We’re Better Off (John Malone)

NYT ^ | 8-29-25 | Mullin

[wardaddy]

John Malone helped create the modern media industry over the last half century. In a new memoir, “Born to Be Wired,” he looks back on what he has wrought. Pop quiz: Which media mogul backed Rupert Murdoch’s launch of Fox News, supported Ted Turner’s plans for CNN and helped lay the groundwork for the internet revolution that powers Instagram, TikTok and Google?

Need a hint? He’s also the second-largest private landowner in the United States, with 2.2 million acres.

Of all the captains of industry who have transformed what we read, watch and talk about over the last half century, John Malone is among the most influential and the least understood. An engineer turned omnivorous investor, Mr. Malone, 84, guides his expansive kingdom from a remove, serving as a behind-the-scenes consigliere to the executives at Warner Bros. Discovery, Formula 1, LiveNation, the Atlanta Braves and Sirius XM.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News
KEYWORDS: johnmalone

[wardaddy]

I had hoped a couple years ago when Malone got largest shareholder status of media property that owns CNN that he could turn it around from the fat angry black woman network it’s become but he’s failed It’s so entrenched at these places I’ve always respected his business acumen but he has regrets The article was free and accessible for me

[The_Media_never_lie]

I kind of like it that CNN is the fat, angry black woman network. The sooner that CNN fails, the better.

[sopo]

oooh, the indispensable man

[Gene Eric]

and I thought it was the Sex Poodle that made the Internet a reality

[iamgalt]

CNN goes nowhere. No matter how bad the ratings get it will stay on. It plays a crucial role for MSM. It is the launchpad and staging area for the current MSM narrative.

[The_Media_never_lie]

CNN goes nowhere. No matter how bad the ratings get it will stay on. It plays a crucial role for MSM. It is the launchpad and staging area for the current MSM narrative.

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Maybe so, but CNN will either hemorrhage money, or be greatly diminished.

[rwa265]

This article is a criticism of CNN and the NYT tried to lump in Fox News. For the record, Malone was quoted in 2021 as saying the following about Fox News:

“Fox News, in my opinion, has followed an interesting trajectory of trying to have ‘news’ news, I mean some actual journalism, embedded in a program schedule of all opinions,” he said.

[bert]

He was also the principle behind the failed Liberty Media enterprise