Olbermann Departs, as Media Consolidate Further
Information Clearing House / Juan Cole
23-Jan-2011 (one comment)



People are blaming the abrupt departure of Keith Olbermann from MSNBC on that company’s merger with Comcast and Olbermann’s loss of the protection and patronage of Jeff Zucker, the former head of NBC programming. MSNBC says that the issue has nothing to do with Comcast.It seems Olbermann is too extreme for US television. But Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity, now they are mainstream. What universe could that proposition be true in? That of cranky old white billionaires. And television news is owned by them. Not by you.

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Onlyiran

Olbermann, who I like, had a financial dispute with NBC

by Onlyiran on Mon Jan 24, 2011 07:54 AM PST

that's why he left.  In fact, the reason why he is uncharacteristically  silent about it is because they are going to pay him through the next fall (when his contract would have expired), and part of the deal is that he can't say anything about NBC.  So, enough with the conspiracy theories.  


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