When the Los Angeles Times initially reported the story about the regional Fox Sports channels and other News Corp. channels being yanked from Dish Network, they got comments.
A lot of comments.
Mostly of the "pox on both your houses" variety, although a few commenters expressed their hopes that Fox News Channel would also be yanked. (Los Angeles is a left-of-center city.)
But one comment inadvertently showed that we the people are not the most intelligent people:
The Fox networks belong to Rupert Murdoch who, surprise!, owns a 34 percent stake in Hughes Electronics, the operator of DirecTV. This is a naked attempt to push Dish Network out of the business and gain a monopoly in the Satellite TV provider market. BULLY FOR DISH NETWORK for standing up to this modern day Nelson Rockefeller!
While the commenter's conspiracy theory may be correct, I believe that the commenter actually meant to refer to John Rockefeller, not Nelson.
Tom Petty's second and third breakdowns
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I just authored a post on my "JEBredCal" blog entitled "Breakouts, go ahead
and give them to me." I doubt that many people will realize why the title
was...
3 years ago