Media fun to watch..

It's not often i get to sit back and enjoy a media situation... Well, there was the ABC flambaste over one of their higher ups being given a "warm send off".

But this one could be even more fun:

Conservative outlet NewsMax is putting in a bid for liberal Newsweek magazine

Newsweek reporters are nervous, an employee told The Daily Caller, about being owned by the conservative Newsmax media company, which announced Wednesday that it had placed a bid to purchase the money-losing magazine.

Newsweek’s owner, the Washington Post Company, put up the weekly for sale in May, about a year after a major redesign that included targeting an affluent audience with left-leaning thought pieces.

Newsmax Media spokesman Scott Rosenblum confirmed the bid to The Daily Caller, saying in a statement that if the bid is successful, “Newsweek would continue in its mission to objectively report the news and provide analysis from a wide spectrum of perspectives.”

Wow.. who'd have thought that they're concerned that Newsweek might actually have to go back to.. reporting the news?   Of course, one of the more fun lines is:

As for whether the liberal contributors would stick around, the founder of the liberal DailyKos blog said he wouldn’t have a problem doing so. “If they wanted to pay me to write something, then sure. I’d take wingnut money to tell them how wrong they are,” said Markos Moulitsas, who writes frequently for Newsweek.

 Bwahaha...  thanks for the laugh 'kos!!   I really needed that one to make my day!    You really need to work on that "Things to say to my boss to keep myself employed!" :)

But wait.. there's even more! 


When Jeff Zucker leaves MSNBC, there could be a few "opinionaters" who might be getting shown the door too... and the articles don't hide it:

There is also widespread chatter inside MSNBC that their days of being a propaganda machine for Obama are over. Comcast is not likely to keep the formula of all liberal hosts (I know, I know, Joe Scarborough - we’ll get to him) all liberal guests, and agitators thinly disguised as reporters and news anchors. And prime-time might be the first to go.

 The thinking is that Phil Griffin won’t have time meet the new bosses before finding himself out on the street. And without Griffin to protect The Stalker from the new corporate bosses, he can cross another network off his list of places he can never work again.

Guess who could be crying himself to sleep in his bathtub.