Re: Fwd: Coca-colonization II

[valis <valis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Never mind, most kids are drawing the proper conclusions from outrages
> > like this.  Someone should do a study showing just how badly Chris Whittle
> > bombed with his horrific Channel One scheme, and why.

Retorts Max:
> Whittle bombed but Channel One is alive and well,
> broadcast into 12,000 schools.  It is owned by a
> conglomerate called Primedia which is a $3
> billion a year company, of which a substantial
> interest is owned by Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts.
> Channel One's profits are buried in Primedia's
> larger divisions but it is probably in the
> neighborhood of one to three hundred million
> annually.

Enthralled to learn that.  I remember how Whittle was
decisively thwarted in New York and California,
and assumed that other states followed suit.
KK&R: Weren't they just about the biggest takeover maggots
on Wall Street about a decade back?  Nabisco, RJ Reynolds, etc?

> I happen to know this because I just did a piece
> on Channel One with Alex Molnar which will be
> released this week, on April Fool's Day.

Molnar is still remembered here in Wisconsin for talking back
to "General" Bush during the countdown to Desert Storm.

Well, what percentage of the whole national gulag is 12,000?
Cold War and consumerist conditioning didn't get us, quite the opposite,
so why should Channel One do that number without breeding some of
its worst future enemies at the same time?
                                                                   valis