As Ellison buys out TikTok, U.S. moves toward one-Party media (September 2025)
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... Larry Ellison, founder of the software firm Oracle, is the second-richest billionaire in both the U.S. and the world, and for a brief moment was No. 1 in the world (AP, 9/11/25). But for a long time, unlike many of his peers, he was unable to boast that he controlled a chunk of the news and opinion reaching the American public.

On Forbes US list, he is sandwiched between Elon Musk, No. 1, who bought the social media network Twitter and rebranded it as X, and Mark Zuckerberg, who runs Meta, which operates Facebook and Instagram. Jeff Bezos, at No. 4, has the Washington Post. Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Nos. 5 and 6, operate the leading search engine as well as one of the most important news aggregators, Google News. Michael Bloomberg, at No. 13, the former New York City mayor, has Bloomberg and its various outlets.

Ellison seems to have joined the club, as TikTok, under U.S. government coercion (FAIR.org, 1/23/25), is selling 80% of its U.S. operations to an investor consortium that includes Oracle, along with investment firms Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz (Reuters, 9/16/25).

Ellison is a big Trumper, joining in the reactionary denial of the 2020 presidential elections (Washington Post, 5/20/22). Like some of the others in the deal, he is part of the inner circle of Trump's favorite corporate ideologues. This TikTok deal is not just about money. It's about control of the political narrative. ...

Climax Blues Band - Running out of Time (1975)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

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...
Ride across the country
I can hear the people call
Some folks, they got everything
And I got nothin' at all

I don't want revolution
I just want a little something
While I sit and do my thing
The revolution's coming

Lookin' for a silver lining
Searchin' for a sign
If we're gonna make it, make it quick
Because we're runnin' out of time

Can't do things I want to
'Cause that's what money's for
I do things I don't want
Gonna cost me even more

Tomorrow is tomorrow
And a million years away
But I serve up every morning
To the mem' of yesterday

Lookin' for a silver lining
Searchin' for a sign
If we're gonna make it, make it quick
Because we're runnin' out of time, yeah

Money's makin' money
It's just the way it always is
People are makin' people
Who've got no way to pay
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Paramount extends deadline on hostile Warner Bros bid to February 20
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CBS News -- Bias and Credibility
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... Overall, we rate CBS News as Right-Center Biased in this update due to emerging editorial decisions and leadership influence under Bari Weiss that suggest a shift away from its historically left-center orientation.

Due to emerging evidence that CBS News is censoring content unfavorable to the government, we are downgrading its rating to Mostly Factual with Medium credibility, despite its historically strong sourcing, professional reporting, and lack of significant failed fact checks. ...