Lowering value before acquisition and merger.

Wildly, they also don't seem to own MSNOW.com

counterpoint: this doesn’t look like a comms error, this looks like execs made a decision and ran with it without bothering to do any of the work

Seems to be at the heart of most of the decisions the NBCUniversal spin off has done

yeah that's what i meant; they launched without thinking any of this thru (or were trying to get ahead of a leak)

oh my god chat points out - msnow.com - they didn't buy the main domain either, it's own by a korean snowmobile dealer

This is some good shit right here

Mr. Snow, that's the name, that name again is Mr. Snow

wtf, just wild

Hmm

"As a part of our required settlement, the Chris Hayes show would like to remind you that a winter trip to Eobi Ice Valley isn't complete without a new snowmobile from MSnow! Check out their new sales floor in Daejeon"

still not over how A. they didn't buy any of the domains before launching and B. the new name ("my source news opinion world") literally reads like one of those fake news sites your grandma sends you a link to about how salmon causes breast cancer

Related Thought: What if that's why they made the name change? Maybe someone had the thought that their articles would reach better virality if their name had better SEO and looked similar to spam.

Idk if that's true, but regardless, pretty bleak shit.

But a spammy appearance would militate AGAINST that, right? Now a host of empirical spam filters will need to be retrained.

You would think so, right? And yet.

Even the MSNOW short hand sounds like a website that pretends to give info about Multiple Sclerosis as a front to sell ivermectin

1. It really sounds like "Person Woman Man Camera TV" to me. 2. But even that main domain. M Snow? or does it mean.. Microsoft NOW?

Could this be an m snow job?

msnowden

ah shit I was not alone in that thought bsky.app/profile/mcs2...

Ha!

sorry 'bout that -- you did it well! If I'd just scrolled...

No apologies for parallel thoughts

true, it's the divergent thoughts that cause the trouble

It sounds to me like they are intentionally trying to kill the leftmost cable news source.

I can't get it to come up now. Best case for them: the domains were purchased ahead of time under agreement to keep them under existing registration until some time after the announcement.

Dear internet, please someone who speaks Korean call this poor place up and tell them to never, ever sell the domain.

This rollout is right up there with TRONC. www.theverge.com/2018/6/18/17...

Eee heee heee hee

Cackling at the dentist office right now

Lololol

oh COME ON

I congratulate you on your quick investment purchase.