The media mogul Barry Diller announced that he is an openly gay man via an excerpt from a forthcoming memoir. Diller wrote of a quiet suffering he felt by hiding his sexuality and a fear of exposure, while also celebrating his marriage to Diane von Furstenberg. nyti.ms/434O7OM - ThreadSky

nytimes.com • 5 days ago

The media mogul Barry Diller announced that he is an openly gay man via an excerpt from a forthcoming memoir. Diller wrote of a quiet suffering he felt by hiding his sexuality and a fear of exposure, while also celebrating his marriage to Diane von Furstenberg. https://nyti.ms/434O7OM

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jeffersonsmith.bsky.social•5 days ago

This guy pitched Fox News to Rupert Murdoch, yeah?

andkenbrbr.bsky.social•5 days ago

Fox. Fox News came up with Roger Ailes, years later.

jeffersonsmith.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wgreene/entertainmentandmedia/Aereo-case.pdf

“Barry Diller & Rupert Murdoch founded Fox News 30 years ago.”

Too few people know this.

egrattan.bsky.social•4 days ago

Why would you make up a quote then source the link that shows you fabricated it?

“Barry Diller and Rupert Murdoch founded the Fox TV network”

andkenbrbr.bsky.social•5 days ago

No. They founded Fox(The broadcast network). Diller wanted to buy independent TV stations and them use Paramount to produce content in the 1980's(Diller sold the idea to Murdoch, that bought Fox Studios). I know Fox and Fox News are entertainment networks, but different versions of entertainment

jeffersonsmith.bsky.social•5 days ago

Helpful. Trying to find the article / source where Diller pitched Fox News to Murdoch. I might be wrong, but coulda swore I wrote it.

egrattan.bsky.social•4 days ago

Fox News was the brainchild of Murdoch & Ailes. Murdoch already had success in the UK and wanted something in the U.S. to compete with Turner.

Dillar was focused on USA Network at that time.

whizzer62.bsky.social•5 days ago

Who gives a shit?

buckmcw.bsky.social•5 days ago

Who didn’t know Barry Diller was gay??

pepperduval.bsky.social•5 days ago

We've always known; worst kept secret.

djf41.bsky.social•5 days ago

So he married a woman to cater to straight society, so stunning and brave.

cathleengrady.bsky.social•5 days ago

Those are the happiest marriages.

1tonytony.bsky.social•5 days ago

Strapon diane maybe 👀

farthestleft.bsky.social•5 days ago

Happily married my ass.

rapanotti.bsky.social•5 days ago

That Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn dynamic, probably far more common than once thought.

spanglismexico.bsky.social•5 days ago

And why is this news? NYT. I would find important news stories to print.

fudgenugget.bsky.social•5 days ago

real

kimballmuskburner.bsky.social•5 days ago

Does he also write in his book about how he made 60 million on an insider trading deal in Activision?

therealsduffy.bsky.social•5 days ago

He's not gay! He's a deeply closeted homosexual.

sparta47.bsky.social•5 days ago

Don’t ask don’t tell!

inthemixer.bsky.social•5 days ago

So he bites the pillow and shares a bed with a woman? Classy.

jenmcl.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oh Who’s quietly suffering..? 😆

imchuckmiller.bsky.social•5 days ago

WTF?!?! He no more gay than Liberace was!

I can’t imagine anyone not knowing this

zagblackice.bsky.social•5 days ago

chiefsnavychick.bsky.social•5 days ago

Lavender marriages work

nyc118.bsky.social•5 days ago

I think we already knew this.

jepaco.bsky.social•5 days ago

I sure did. I thought he had come out years ago, even before the marriage to DvF

nyc118.bsky.social•5 days ago

Exactly!

adailyristretto.bsky.social•5 days ago

Understand very well.

ro777.bsky.social•5 days ago

🤨 go on record before the tell tell book comes out.. got it.😏

patriotboy2025.bsky.social•5 days ago

I met him. USA interactive was buying a travel co. in Miami with about 500 employees. Came rolling in with a bunch of limos, about 10 people. No idea who he was,and was standing in the lobby after picking up lunch, he saw my ID, and asked "how do you like working here?" and "good place for lunch?"

sinker1234.bsky.social•5 days ago

Great! Now let's hit him with a wealth tax so heavy his head spins.

kaisardragon.bsky.social•4 days ago

Such a lovely beard.

grammy-3.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oh please 🙄 who cares

kye.boats•4 days ago

You’re right. There’s only one thing people should do on Bluesky: make stupid “orange cheeto man president” jokes. Why do all blue wave Democrat accounts seem like they’re run by same weird AI?