WHO WILL BENEFIT…RACHEL MADDOW..FOLLOW THE MONEY!
When…[IT WAS]… suggested that she could now expand her show to two hours, she said “In my contract, I only agree to produce a certain amount of content. I’ll just do it very slowly.”....who stabbed who in the back....just follow the money!!!!!
http://goodmorningflint.blogspot.com/2011/01/comcast-dumps-keith-olbermann.html
NOTES......
DID COMCAST CLEAR THE DECKS OF THE LEFT AND SWEEP OUT COUNT DOWN?
Correlation isn’t causation, as they say in the sciences. But it’s hard to ignore the near simultaneity of Keith Olbermann’s departure from MSNBC, announced on the air tonight, and the approval of NBC Universal’s merger with Comcast by federal regulators, which happened earlier this week. Are the two connected?[1]
WHO WILL BENEFIT…RACHEL MADDOW..FOLLOW THE MONEY!
When…[IT WAS]… suggested that she could now expand her show to two hours, she said “In my contract, I only agree to produce a certain amount of content. I’ll just do it very slowly.”[2]
KEITH COULD NOT BE CONTROLED AND HE HAD TO GO!
MSNBC president Phil Griffin and others at NBC News have wished themselves rid of the difficult, imperious “Countdown” host, but a simple fact got in the way: Olbermann is by far the network’s single biggest ratings-driver. [1]
WHY WAS THEIR CASH COW SCRAPPED? WAS IT POLITICS?
Thus, Griffin has walked up to the edge — as when he suspended his star in November for making undisclosed political donations that embarrassed the network — but never quite jumped.[1]
CONSERVATIVE CORPORATION ACTS AGAINST ITS BOTTOM LINE.
But Comcast has its own calculations. An intrinsically conservative corporation, it’s not overly friendly to congenital boat-rockers like Olbermann.[1]
SOME ARGUE IT WAS JUST HIS TIME TO GO.
Thwacht wrote:
MSNBC has been going to great effort to distinguish itself from Fox recently. Both networks report with a political bias, but MSNBC tries to be open about its perspective while Fox does not. “Lean Forward” versus “Fair and Balanced.” Yet News Corp unabashedly donates millions of dollars to the Republican Party, while NBC suspends KO for making a few small personal donations to specific candidates.
Since President Bush left office and we’ve finally begun to try to end the shockandawe war for WMDs, KO has had no righteous cause to fight for, and no enemy big enough to be worthy of his ire. He’s become negative, whiny, and divisive; unfair and maybe even a little unbalanced. The way I see it, these qualities are more common to a Fox commentator, and I’m not surprised that MSNBC took yet another opportunity to distinguish its style of biased reporting from that of its competitor by letting him go.[3]
COMCAST HAS AN ANTI-FREE SPEECH HISTORY.
In fact, one such individual, a former employee named Barry Nolan, sued Comcast last year, saying the cable operator fired him in order to protect its relationship with News Corp., which owns the Fox News Channel. Nolan had publicly protested an award given to Bill O’Reilly, Fox News’s biggest star. Noting that Olbermann has also frequently feuded with O’Reilly, media critic Dan Kennedy predicted last year, “Keith Olbermann may prove to be Barry Nolan writ large.”[1]
WE WILL BE WAITING FOR THE REST OF THE STORY
My hunch: There’s a lot more to this story, and we’ll be hearing it very soon.[1]
PARTING COMMENTS
"For this relief, much thanks! Comcast dumps Keith Olbermann!" reads the headline, which is simply followed by a flashback quote from Olbermann:
"Those of you who've posted about Comcast meaning the end of my show or Rachel's can, I think, relieve yourselves of such concerns....Whatever else you think of these guys, they are not in the habit of saying "a billion in profit over the next five years? Who needs it! Cancel the shows that generate it! (Oh, and let's keep paying both of their salaries, too)."[4]
POSTED HERE BY TERRY BANKERT
http://attorneybankert.com/
[1]
http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffbercovici/2011/01/21/was-comcast-behind-keith-olbermanns-exit-from-msnbc/?boxes=Homepagelighttop
[2]
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/01/22/rachel-maddow-speaks-out-on-keith-olbermann-leaving-msnbc/
[3]
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/01/22/keith-olbermann-out-at-msnbc/
[4]
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/conservatives-react-quietly-keith-olbermann-74569
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When…[IT WAS]… suggested that she could now expand her show to two hours, she said “In my contract, I only agree to produce a certain amount of content. I’ll just do it very slowly.”....who stabbed who in the back....just follow the money!!!!!
http://goodmorningflint.blogspot.com/2011/01/comcast-dumps-keith-olbermann.html
NOTES......
DID COMCAST CLEAR THE DECKS OF THE LEFT AND SWEEP OUT COUNT DOWN?
Correlation isn’t causation, as they say in the sciences. But it’s hard to ignore the near simultaneity of Keith Olbermann’s departure from MSNBC, announced on the air tonight, and the approval of NBC Universal’s merger with Comcast by federal regulators, which happened earlier this week. Are the two connected?[1]
WHO WILL BENEFIT…RACHEL MADDOW..FOLLOW THE MONEY!
When…[IT WAS]… suggested that she could now expand her show to two hours, she said “In my contract, I only agree to produce a certain amount of content. I’ll just do it very slowly.”[2]
KEITH COULD NOT BE CONTROLED AND HE HAD TO GO!
MSNBC president Phil Griffin and others at NBC News have wished themselves rid of the difficult, imperious “Countdown” host, but a simple fact got in the way: Olbermann is by far the network’s single biggest ratings-driver. [1]
WHY WAS THEIR CASH COW SCRAPPED? WAS IT POLITICS?
Thus, Griffin has walked up to the edge — as when he suspended his star in November for making undisclosed political donations that embarrassed the network — but never quite jumped.[1]
CONSERVATIVE CORPORATION ACTS AGAINST ITS BOTTOM LINE.
But Comcast has its own calculations. An intrinsically conservative corporation, it’s not overly friendly to congenital boat-rockers like Olbermann.[1]
SOME ARGUE IT WAS JUST HIS TIME TO GO.
Thwacht wrote:
MSNBC has been going to great effort to distinguish itself from Fox recently. Both networks report with a political bias, but MSNBC tries to be open about its perspective while Fox does not. “Lean Forward” versus “Fair and Balanced.” Yet News Corp unabashedly donates millions of dollars to the Republican Party, while NBC suspends KO for making a few small personal donations to specific candidates.
Since President Bush left office and we’ve finally begun to try to end the shockandawe war for WMDs, KO has had no righteous cause to fight for, and no enemy big enough to be worthy of his ire. He’s become negative, whiny, and divisive; unfair and maybe even a little unbalanced. The way I see it, these qualities are more common to a Fox commentator, and I’m not surprised that MSNBC took yet another opportunity to distinguish its style of biased reporting from that of its competitor by letting him go.[3]
COMCAST HAS AN ANTI-FREE SPEECH HISTORY.
In fact, one such individual, a former employee named Barry Nolan, sued Comcast last year, saying the cable operator fired him in order to protect its relationship with News Corp., which owns the Fox News Channel. Nolan had publicly protested an award given to Bill O’Reilly, Fox News’s biggest star. Noting that Olbermann has also frequently feuded with O’Reilly, media critic Dan Kennedy predicted last year, “Keith Olbermann may prove to be Barry Nolan writ large.”[1]
WE WILL BE WAITING FOR THE REST OF THE STORY
My hunch: There’s a lot more to this story, and we’ll be hearing it very soon.[1]
PARTING COMMENTS
"For this relief, much thanks! Comcast dumps Keith Olbermann!" reads the headline, which is simply followed by a flashback quote from Olbermann:
"Those of you who've posted about Comcast meaning the end of my show or Rachel's can, I think, relieve yourselves of such concerns....Whatever else you think of these guys, they are not in the habit of saying "a billion in profit over the next five years? Who needs it! Cancel the shows that generate it! (Oh, and let's keep paying both of their salaries, too)."[4]
POSTED HERE BY TERRY BANKERT
http://attorneybankert.com/
[1]
http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffbercovici/2011/01/21/was-comcast-behind-keith-olbermanns-exit-from-msnbc/?boxes=Homepagelighttop
[2]
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/01/22/rachel-maddow-speaks-out-on-keith-olbermann-leaving-msnbc/
[3]
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/01/22/keith-olbermann-out-at-msnbc/
[4]
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/conservatives-react-quietly-keith-olbermann-74569
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