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Peter Thiel Is Reportedly Exploring Launching Conservative News Outlet

17 points by miraj 9y ago

QAPereo 9y ago
This again? Either I’m entering my dotage, or this was on the front page recently. Either way, if Thiel wants to burn his money for ideological purposes, I’m sure that the line to sell him matches is around the block. Edit: naeem, I’d encourage you to move past assumptions and actually look at comment histories; in my case at least you’re dead wrong.
jacquesm 9y ago
Peter Thiel should take his money and fuck off to New Zealand where he paid to become a resident. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/new-zealand-gave-peter-thiel-citizenship-after-spending-just-12-days-there https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/new-zealand-ga... He's done enough damage to politics as it is and I would very much want him and other billionaires to stick to one-man-one-vote rather than to use their money to multiply their voting power.
- BrainInAJar 9y ago
  does his blood boy have residency?
  - jacquesm 9y ago
    Sorry?
    - BrainInAJar 9y ago
      that joke, on Silicon Valley, about the blood donation boy... is based on real life Peter Thiel https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.html https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.h...
kstrauser 9y ago
Good, and I hope it takes off. While there are numerous respected conservative magazines, the right has no legitimate news networks. I think we'd all be better off if conservatives had, say, a TV channel that actually reported real news.
- luckydata 9y ago
  Fat chance Peter Thiel will be the person giving us that.
  - kstrauser 9y ago
    You're probably right, but I'll be honest: the idea of some of my family and friends watching something other than Fox News all day makes me wishful.
- deleted 9y ago
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- _bohm 9y ago
  >the right has no legitimate news networks. Unless you specifically mean TV channels, the right has it's fair share of legitimate news outlets, like the WSJ. I'm not sure that anyone would be better off with any more 24h cable news channels. The problem with all of these, regardless of political orientation, is that there's only so much useful content that can be produced on an ongoing basis that will appeal to the common denominator. As a result, we end up with the same kinds of talk shows and propaganda pieces that plague all cable news channels, and ultimately serve to delegitimate them.
  - kstrauser 9y ago
    I do mean TV channels. I meant that first part about there being plenty of legit, respected, analytic conservative news sources. There's just not an actual news channel for the right. I believe that anything that could draw viewership away from Fox would be good for us as a nation.
  - ellius 9y ago
naeem 9y ago
Comments here are hilarious. Replace "Peter Thiel" with "Elon Musk" and "conservative" with "liberal" and the circle jerk will fly.
RickJWag 9y ago
Diversity of thought is a good thing. I hope Thiel succeeds.
xandar11 9y ago
How does this fit into his Monopoly first strategy? News outlets are not monopolies and have no significant competitive advantage (unlike PayPal and FB which have network effects). I've listened somewhere that he also opened a restaurant some time ago and it failed, which is why he's so negative on restaurants.

17 points by miraj 9y ago

This again? Either I’m entering my dotage, or this was on the front page recently. Either way, if Thiel wants to burn his money for ideological purposes, I’m sure that the line to sell him matches is around the block. Edit: naeem, I’d encourage you to move past assumptions and actually look at comment histories; in my case at least you’re dead wrong.

jacquesm 9y ago

Peter Thiel should take his money and fuck off to New Zealand where he paid to become a resident. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/new-zealand-gave-peter-thiel-citizenship-after-spending-just-12-days-there https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/29/new-zealand-ga... He's done enough damage to politics as it is and I would very much want him and other billionaires to stick to one-man-one-vote rather than to use their money to multiply their voting power.

BrainInAJar 9y ago
does his blood boy have residency?
- jacquesm 9y ago
  Sorry?
  - BrainInAJar 9y ago
    that joke, on Silicon Valley, about the blood donation boy... is based on real life Peter Thiel https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.html https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.h...

kstrauser 9y ago

Good, and I hope it takes off. While there are numerous respected conservative magazines, the right has no legitimate news networks. I think we'd all be better off if conservatives had, say, a TV channel that actually reported real news.

luckydata 9y ago
Fat chance Peter Thiel will be the person giving us that.
- kstrauser 9y ago
  You're probably right, but I'll be honest: the idea of some of my family and friends watching something other than Fox News all day makes me wishful.
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_bohm 9y ago
>the right has no legitimate news networks. Unless you specifically mean TV channels, the right has it's fair share of legitimate news outlets, like the WSJ. I'm not sure that anyone would be better off with any more 24h cable news channels. The problem with all of these, regardless of political orientation, is that there's only so much useful content that can be produced on an ongoing basis that will appeal to the common denominator. As a result, we end up with the same kinds of talk shows and propaganda pieces that plague all cable news channels, and ultimately serve to delegitimate them.
- kstrauser 9y ago
  I do mean TV channels. I meant that first part about there being plenty of legit, respected, analytic conservative news sources. There's just not an actual news channel for the right. I believe that anything that could draw viewership away from Fox would be good for us as a nation.
- ellius 9y ago

naeem 9y ago

Comments here are hilarious. Replace "Peter Thiel" with "Elon Musk" and "conservative" with "liberal" and the circle jerk will fly.

RickJWag 9y ago

Diversity of thought is a good thing. I hope Thiel succeeds.

xandar11 9y ago

How does this fit into his Monopoly first strategy? News outlets are not monopolies and have no significant competitive advantage (unlike PayPal and FB which have network effects). I've listened somewhere that he also opened a restaurant some time ago and it failed, which is why he's so negative on restaurants.