Reuters: Special Report: How AT&T helped build far-right One America News. So CNN’s parent company is funding OAN. (1 Viewer)

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    One America News, the far-right network whose fortunes and viewership rose amid the triumph and tumult of the Trump administration, has flourished with support from a surprising source: AT&T Inc, the world's largest communications company.

    A Reuters review of court records shows the role AT&T played in creating and funding OAN, a network that continues to spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic.

    OAN founder and chief executive Robert Herring Sr has testified that the inspiration to launch OAN in 2013 came from AT&T executives.

    “They told us they wanted a conservative network,” Herring said during a 2019 deposition seen by Reuters. “They only had one, which was Fox News, and they had seven others on the other [leftwing] side. When they said that, I jumped to it and built one.”

    Since then, AT&T has been a crucial source of funds flowing into OAN, providing tens of millions of dollars in revenue, court records show. Ninety percent of OAN’s revenue came from a contract with AT&T-owned television platforms, including satellite broadcaster DirecTV, according to 2020 sworn testimony by an OAN accountant.

    Herring has testified he was offered $250 million for OAN in 2019. Without the DirecTV deal, the accountant said under oath, the network’s value “would be zero.”

    Dallas-based AT&T, a mobile-phone and Internet provider, also owns entertainment giant Warner Media, which includes CNN and HBO. AT&T acquired DirecTV in 2015 and in August spun off the satellite service, retaining a 70% share in the new, independently managed company. AT&T’s total U.S. television subscriber base, including satellite and streaming services, fell from 26 million in 2015 to 15.4 million as of August.





    I’m sure Brian Stelter & Oliver Darcy will be all over this. 😂
     
    I was literally just about to post that I was talking about covering it on ABC/NBC/CBS nightly news and not one single article. It's like I already know what your response will be. 😆
    So predictable. Move those goalposts. (NBC News has it on their front page). You just carry on in your little bubble.

    I could keep going, there are millions of hits on a Google search. Oh, look, here‘s ABC News:

     
    So predictable. Move those goalposts. (NBC News has it on their front page). You just carry on in your little bubble.
    I'm sure you can find a transcript of it being covered on their nightly news shows right?
     
    You just can’t admit when you’re wrong. You should try it, it releases a lot of stress and unnecessary stress is really bad for your health.
     
    I’m just curious, SFL. Where did you get the idea that the anniversary of the Las Vegas massacre wasn’t covered? Did you just make it up, or did one of your media types lead you astray?
     
    I have switched from AT&T to T-mobile. I won’t watch CNN anymore either.

    The only HBO product I will consume is John Oliver clips on youtube, because he trashes AT&T, and I can pretend that using YouTube doesn’t benefit OAN’s parents very much.

    I am willing to consider giving up whatever Farb or Saintsforlife can come up with to accuse me of hypocrisy, but I am willing to be a little hypocritical.


    I just hope Google doesn’t eventually take it all over.
     

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