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    Jeffrey Bewkes seemed eager to unveil a brand-new business strategy for Time Warner Inc. , the careworn media giant he’s been running for the past 22 months. "Actually we’ve been hiding this, and you should be the one to break the news ... We are going to buy and roll up all the railroads in the United States. Then we’re going to put flat screens in all of the freight boxcars, because we think that anybody in a recession like this, who’s actually hitching a ride on a boxcar, could become a very loyal viewer of some of our programming. And later, we might be able to sell them something. That’s our theory." “When you look at the media business, not only is it healthy and has a good future, but it’s not even recovering from a problem,” Bewkes said, a few hours after Time Warner posted slightly better-than-expected 3rd quarter earnings. Full Article at The Daily Beast
    Actually we’ve been hiding this, and you should be the one to break the news ... We are going to buy and roll up all the railroads in the United States. Then we’re going to put flat screens in all of the freight boxcars, because we think that anybody in a recession like this, who’s actually hitching a ride on a boxcar, could become a very loyal viewer of some of our programming. And later, we might be able to sell them something. That’s our theory.
    Jeffrey Bewkes SOURCE: The Daily Beast 2 weeks ago