Malone Goal: Selling Liberty's US Assets?

The media dealings and structure of John Malone remain as complex and dizzying as ever...always playing three dimensional chess with corporate moves at least several steps ahead of most everyone, it looks as if Malone may be trying to gather Liberty Media's domestic assets (programming interests like Discovery and production/facilities assets like Ascent Media) into a structure that can be more readily bought by an interested media giant--perhaps News Corp in exchange for Malone's increased shares in Rupert Murdoch's company.