Talk:John C. Malone

Question "largest private landowner in US" claim
Someone may need to properly qualify this claim. The NYT article says he owns 2.1 million acres, "surpassing Ted Turner's" holdings. This ignores the fact that Plum Creek claims, "Plum Creek is the largest private timberland owner in the nation with approximately 6.8 million acres.." PCL Investors. How does one reconcile these conflicting claims? Lupinelawyer (talk) 22:38, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I suppose it should read that Malone is the largest individual private land owner. Plum Creek is a corporation. - 67.224.51.189 (talk) 02:56, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
 * This article, from 2021, says that he is currently the *second* largest landowner, after Red Emmerson. https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/2021-land-report-who-owns-the-most-land-in-the-united-states 24.207.97.60 (talk) 19:07, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm looking at the 2022 Land Report, and it ranks John Malone as the second largest landowner in the U.S. The 2022 report begins by reporting that Malone was surpassed in 2021 by the Emmerson Family, and they continue to grow their holdings in Calif. and Washington. I'm going to adjust Malone's article with this ranking/information, especially since his land holdings is one attribute that he is most known for.  Some of everything (talk) 18:45, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Controversial
John Malone is famously controversial, and easily one of the most controversial people in business. He uses a different M.O. than Trump does in his controversial approach to business, whereas Trump is famous for never paying the people that he hires, Malone is (for one), famous for avoiding paying taxes in his business endeavors, amongst other Libertarian strategies. He has also famously taken some rightwing positions that should be included here. His controversies need to be included in this article, too. Stevenmitchell (talk) 10:32, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
 * This is a Talk Page, so I am posting this notice here, so that possibly a Wikipedia editor can do some research on one of the most controversial businessmen in modern U.S. history. I also, mention this now, because the US press has started to cover John Malone's current impact on reshaping CNN to his political tastes. The first example of this was Brian Stetler and the CNN show Reliable Sources, who was fired from CNN after 9 years, and his show "Reliable Sources," was canceled in mid-August, after celebrating 30 years on television, earlier this year. I have seen the reference to John Malone on several news clips but not in print media, as of yet, but have not had a chance to spend the time to find reliable print sources. This is a Talk Page. This conversation here, is about improving the article, but not part of the article itself, so it is not subject to the same criteria as article material. Many, many Talk Pages include controversial information that for a variety of reasons are not converted to actual textual material in the articles themselves. This is the only place on Wikipedia where that type of discussion has a forum for its posting.Stevenmitchell (talk) 21:51, 1 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Be bold! Learn how to edit so that you can improve the article yourself. :0) Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) [he/him] 03:16, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
 * On the other hand ... since I now know (reading your Talk page) you have been here since 2006, I am perplexed by your comments. Are you responding to someone else? Trying to recruit someone to write something you agree with? Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) [he/him] 03:18, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Shuns a glamorous lifestyle?
I'm having a hard time reconciling the lines "Malone reportedly shuns the limelight and glamorous lifestyle, taking his family vacations alongside long time friend Gary Biskup in a recreational vehicle." with reality here. How can you say that someone shuns a glamorous lifestyle when they own millions of acres of land, 60,000 square feet of Irish castle estates and their RV, according to the sited articles, cost millions of dollars and is used just to travel between two different enormous ranches that also have giant houses because it's easier on the dogs than flying. Dcope1978 (talk) 17:45, 13 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Good point. 2601:43:181:4990:8E:C5DC:3E36:1DB7 (talk) 09:04, 13 July 2023 (UTC)