Inside Track
Soros Grows Propaganda Apparatus With Radio Networks
According to global news platform Semafor on April 2, Soros Fund Management, an arm of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, is looking into buying up major radio networks in dire straits, such as the publicly traded Cumulus Media. The fund has also explored acquiring Project Brazen, a podcast company; Pushkin Industries, the podcast company co-founded by Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg; and Lemonada, known for its Wiser Than Me show hosted by actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
In 2022, the billionaire left-wing activist made an investment of an unknown sum in Crooked Media, the progressive podcast network responsible for producing the widely acclaimed Pod Save America, and in February he expanded his influence machine with the purchase of a controlling interest in the bankrupt company Audacy. With more than 230 local radio stations in its network, Audacy is the second-largest radio company in the United States after iHeart Media. The New York Post reported in February that the Soros fund also assumed $400 million of Audacy’s debt.
On April 8, as reported by the Daily Caller on April 9, Representative Nick Langworthy (R-N.Y.) requested that Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel initiate a probe into Soros’ purchase of Audacy. “I believe this sale is the latest in a series of moves by a partisan, progressive billionaire to consolidate control over the media and flood hundreds of radio stations with far-left ideology and propaganda. Furthermore, I believe that what we could lose in the process is the unique lifeline that local radio brings through both local connection and diversity of thought that have been so important to Americans, particularly in recent years,” Langworthy wrote.
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