--- description: Jon Stewart doesn't like CNN and wants to make it better—by buying it for $10 billion title: Jon Stewart Announces $10 Billion Kickstarter to Buy CNN image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt057c2ac04177cf64/69869cb8adae4479ae544409/jon-stewart-daily-show.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Jon Stewart Launches $10 Billion Kickstarter to Buy CNN by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 23, 2014 12:23 PM CUT  Jon Stewart speaks during a taping of "The Daily Show with John Stewart," in New York. in 2012. Jon Stewart speaks during a taping of "The Daily Show with John Stewart," in New York. in 2012.Carolyn Kaster—AP by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 23, 2014 12:23 PM CUT If Rupert Murdoch buys Time Warner, the world’s _other_ great media titan will be there to pick up the scraps. Jon Stewart said Tuesday on the _Daily Show_ that he is launching a $10 billion Kickstarter campaign to buy CNN. The legacy news station, whose value is reportedly around $10 billion and is a Time Warner company, would likely be up for sale if Rupert Murdoch were successful in his bid to acquire the media conglomerate. Ten billion dollars? “It’s a lot of money for anyone,” said Stewart on Tuesday. “But not a lot of money for _everyone._” So that’s where the _Daily Show_ host’s campaign comes in. Stewart’s [LetsBuyCNN.com](http://www.letsbuycnn.com "undefined") mimics a Kickstarter page, though it doesn’t actually allow users to contribute money toward the goal. Hypothetically, a contribution of $1 billion would allow you to host a CNN anchor _Hunger Games-_style fight to the death. Worth it? Depends on whether you dislike CNN as much as the _Daily Show_ does. “CNN, America’s first 24-hour cable news network, has been terrible for many, many years,” LetsBuyCNN.com reads. “Does it have to be that way? Who knows, maybe it does. So let’s find out for ourselves!” Amen? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3023062/jon-stewart-kickstarter-cnn/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3023062/jon-stewart-kickstarter-cnn/"},"headline":"Jon Stewart Launches $10 Billion Kickstarter to Buy CNN","datePublished":"2014-07-23T12:23:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:17:37.006Z","description":"Jon Stewart doesn't like the cable news channel and wants to make it better—but he'll need some help raising the funds to buy it","url":"https://time.com/3023062/jon-stewart-kickstarter-cnn/","keywords":["CNN","Television","Media","celebrity","Jon Stewart"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt057c2ac04177cf64/69869cb8adae4479ae544409/jon-stewart-daily-show.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt057c2ac04177cf64/69869cb8adae4479ae544409/jon-stewart-daily-show.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jon Stewart speaks during a taping of \"The Daily Show with John Stewart,\" in New York. in 2012.","caption":"Jon Stewart speaks during a taping of \"The Daily Show with John Stewart,\" in New York. in 2012.","creditText":"Carolyn Kaster—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3023062/jon-stewart-kickstarter-cnn/","name":"Jon Stewart Launches $10 Billion Kickstarter to Buy CNN"}}]}] ```