EXCERPT:
STELTER: "Well, some inside MSNBC are taking Musk‘s comments seriously. Whether he‘s trolling or not, there is a serious undercurrent to this, and it is the following. In some countries, where we‘ve seen democratic backsliding, where some oppositional media outlets have been captured by the government, a process known as media capture, this is exactly what happens. An ally of the leader, like Musk, comes in and buys a media outlet that is viewed as oppositional, and then he turns the content and makes it more friendly to the person in power. That has happened before in other countries. That‘s part of the concern when — even if Elon Musk is just joking, that‘s part of the concern here when it comes to MSNBC. But at the moment, this spin off that Comcast is doing will take at least a year to complete. There‘s no immediate sale or any of that, I‘m told, that is planned. But the idea that Musk talks about it, he likes to say, 'The most ironic outcome is the most likely.' And in this case, it would be pretty ironic if he controlled MSNBC."