Would a billionaire buying Fox News change conservative narrative? Or would it just be another wealthy campaign of influence?
First, buy Fox News. I’m entirely serious. It is a journalistic toxic-waste dump that has misinformed millions of Americans, damaged our civic culture, spread xenophobia and insulated an unfit president from scrutiny. https://t.co/xoXLhSUUiP
— Jennifer Truth Over Phony Balance Rubin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@JRubinBlogger) November 10, 2019
Bloomberg has not yet officially announced a bid for the 2020 presidency, but that hasn’t stopped some people from suggesting ways for the former New York City mayor to defeat President Donald Trump if he does launch a campaign.
George Conway, along with several other Twitter commenters, claimed a potential acquisition of Fox News would make a huge impact in the upcoming election, and billionaire Bloomberg was just the person capable of taking over the news network.
In a tweet on Friday, Tom Wright, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institute, suggested Bloomberg, who already owns the Bloomberg News empire, should buy the right-leaning Fox News, which has been notoriously loose with fact-checking and criticism of Trump.
“Mike Bloomberg’s first major campaign move should be to buy Fox News,” Wright wrote.
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