{"id":61688,"date":"2018-01-08T01:29:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T06:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=61688"},"modified":"2018-01-08T01:29:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T06:29:51","slug":"peter-thiel-is-reportedly-exploring-launching-conservative-news-outlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2018\/peter-thiel-is-reportedly-exploring-launching-conservative-news-outlet.html","title":{"rendered":"Peter Thiel Is Reportedly Exploring Launching Conservative News Outlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is exploring starting a conservative news outlet, with backing from the powerful Mercer family and a cast of Fox News celebrities, according to revelations in a new book and a report from BuzzFeed News. Last May, Thiel was set to meet with former Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes to discuss the idea, according to an excerpt of the book, &#8220;Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,&#8221; by the journalist Michael Wolff.  But two days before the scheduled meeting, Ailes fell, hit his head and went into a coma, and died soon thereafter. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-04\/peter-thiel-said-to-be-exploring-launching-conservative-news-outlet\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is exploring starting a conservative news outlet, with backing from the powerful Mercer family and a cast of Fox News celebrities, according to revelations in a new book and a report from BuzzFeed News. Last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61689,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61688\/revisions\/61689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}