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On 1/22/11, Sage2 <wisdom812@gmail.com> wrote:
> As an old radio talk show host Jerry Williams often would
> ask ! " What's the matter Tommy ? You sound ANNOYED " !
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> On Jan 22, 11:56 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Say Goodnight Faux Noise, Glenn Beck, Gretchen Van Snide of Mouth and
>> The Rest Of The Crazy Wing Nut Unfair and Unbalanced Pundits
>>
>> On 1/22/11, Keith In Köln <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Once Comcast completes the buy-out from G.E., rest assured that NBC,
>> > and
>> > MSNBC will return to profitability, and hopefully, a sense of
>> > rationality.
>> > I tend to believe this is the reason that Moonbat extradordiniare
>> > Olbermann
>> > flew the coop now, versus being termianted. The writing was on the
>> > wall.
>> > Say G'Night Maddow, Schultz, and the rest of the crazy
>> > Anti-American's.....Your fifteen minutes of fame are over!
>>
>> >> Olbermann Leaves 'Countdown' on MSNBC
>> >> By BILL CARTER
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>> >> Virginia Sherwood/MSNBC
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>> >> Keith Olbermann in November.
>> >> 12:05 a.m. | Updated Keith Olbermann, the highest-rated host on MSNBC,
>> >> announced abruptly on the air Friday night that he was leaving his
>> >> show, "Countdown," immediately.
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>> >> The host, who has had a stormy relationship with the management of the
>> >> network for some time, especially since he was suspended for two days
>> >> last November, came to an agreement with NBC's corporate management
>> >> late this week to settle his contract and step down.
>>
>> >> In a closing statement on his show, Mr. Olbermann said simply that it
>> >> would be the last edition of the program. He offered no explanation
>> >> other than on occasion "all that surrounded the show – but never the
>> >> show itself – was just too much for me."
>>
>> >> Mr. Olbermann thanked his viewers for their enthusiastic support of a
>> >> show that had "gradually established its position as
>> >> antiestablishment."
>>
>> >> In a statement, MSNBC said: "MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended
>> >> their contract. The last broadcast of 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann'
>> >> will be this evening. MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in
>> >> MSNBC's success and we wish him well in his future endeavors."
>>
>> >> NBC executives said the move had nothing to do with the impending
>> >> takeover of NBC Universal by Comcast. With viewers and fans of Mr.
>> >> Olbermann suggesting that Comcast was responsible for forcing Mr.
>> >> Olbermann out, Comcast also released an official statement late Friday
>> >> night:
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>> >> "Comcast has not closed the transaction for NBC Universal and has no
>> >> operational control at any of its properties including MSNBC. We
>> >> pledged from the day the deal was announced that we would not
>> >> interfere with NBC Universal's news operations. We have not and we
>> >> will not."
>>
>> >> MSNBC announced that "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell would
>> >> replace "Countdown" at 8 p.m., with "The Ed Show" with Ed Schultz
>> >> taking Mr. O'Donnell's slot at 10 p.m. Mr. Olbermann did not discuss
>> >> any future plans, but NBC executives said one term of his settlement
>> >> would keep him from moving to another network for an extended period
>> >> of time.
>>
>> >> Mr. Olbermann signed a four-year contract extension in 2008 for an
>> >> estimated $30 million. He had hosted "Countdown" at 8 p.m. since 2003
>> >> and it became the foundation of the channel's surge to its status as
>> >> the second-ranked news channel on cable television, after Fox News,
>> >> surpassing the one-time leader CNN.
>>
>> >> Mr. Olbermann's outspoken, and sometimes controversial, support of
>> >> liberal positions and Democratic candidates redefined MSNBC from a
>> >> neutral news channel to one that openly offered a voice to viewers on
>> >> the left, much as Fox News has done for conservatives.
>>
>> >> Mr. Olbermann challenged Fox News publicly on numerous occasions,
>> >> especially the top-rated cable host Bill O'Reilly.
>>
>> >> Ratings for Mr. Olbermann's show grew, though he never approached Mr.
>> >> O'Reilly's level of popularity. But he helped expand the MSNBC brand
>> >> by his frequent invitations to Rachel Maddow, who was eventually
>> >> offered her own show on MSNBC.
>>
>> >> Ms. Maddow became the 9 p.m. host following Mr. Olbermann and has
>> >> built such a successful show that some NBC executives felt less
>> >> concerned about losing Mr. Olbermann as the signature star of the
>> >> network.
>>
>> >> According to several senior network executives, NBC's management had
>> >> been close to firing Mr. Olbermann on previous occasions, most
>> >> recently in November after he revealed that he had made donations to
>> >> several Democratic candidates in 2010 — one of them, coincidentally,
>> >> was Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who has been the subject of
>> >> many of his recent shows after being shot in an assassination attempt.
>>
>> >> The top MSNBC executive, Phil Griffin, said the donations had violated
>> >> NBC News standards and ordered Mr. Olbermann suspended. His fans
>> >> responded with a petition to reinstate him that attracted over 250,000
>> >> signatures. Mr. Olbermann returned two days later. In his response he
>> >> said the rules on donations had been "inconsistently applied."
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>> >> More:
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>> >>http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/olbermann-hosts-last...
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>> >> Keith Olbermann out at MSNBC
>> >> By Greg Sargent
>> >> So Keith Olbermann is out. As best as I can tell, none of the news
>> >> accounts about his departure have gotten to the bottom of what
>> >> happened here. But Olbermann himself offered enough clues in his final
>> >> broadcast for us to reasonably speculate that he abruptly got the ax,
>> >> perhaps even as late as last night.
>>
>> >> A "knowledgeable official" at MSNBC told Howard Kurtz that the
>> >> separation was "mutual." But it's hard to see how that squares with
>> >> this, from Olbermann's last words on Countdown last night:
>>
>> >> "I think the same fantasy has popped into the head of everybody in my
>> >> business who has ever been told what I have been told, that this is
>> >> going to be the last edition of your show. You go directly to the
>> >> scene from the movie 'Network,' complete with the pajamas, and the
>> >> raincoat, and you go off on an existential, otherworldly journey of
>> >> profundity and vision...
>>
>> >> "When I resigned from ESPN 13 and a half years ago, I was literally
>> >> given 30 seconds to say goodbye at the very end of my last edition of
>> >> "Sports Center." As God is my witness, in the commercial break just
>> >> before the emotional moment, the producer got into my earpiece and he
>> >> said, `uh, can you cut it down to 15 seconds, so we can get in this
>> >> tennis result from Stuttgart? So I'm grateful that I have a little
>> >> more time to sign off here."
>>
>> >> Between this and the shell-shocked look Olbermann had last night, it
>> >> seems clear that he may have been abruptly informed that he was
>> >> history, perhaps even during last night's show. That would also square
>> >> with the experience of Josh Marshall, who was actually on Olbermann
>> >> last night and had no sense that anything was amiss.
>>
>> >> We already know that MSNBC president Phil Griffin had been gunning for
>> >> Olbermann for some time now. MSNBC was reportedly close to firing
>> >> Olbermann on several occasions. Recall that during the ridiculous flap
>> >> over Olbermann's political donations, in which he responded to his
>> >> suspension with a show of public defiance, Griffin flatly told
>> >> Olbermann's representative: "We are at war."
>>
>> >> Soon enough we'll have a clearer sense of why this happened, and we
>> >> can deal with it then. But for now, let's thank Olbermann for all his
>> >> hard work. He's rich, popular and has a huge following that's likely
>> >> to follow him to his next endeavor. He'll be just fine.
>>
>> >> What of Olbermann's legacy? There's a great deal of crowing on the
>> >> right about Olbermann's apparent ouster. But let's be clear on what he
>> >> accomplished: He helped clear a huge space on the airwaves for
>> >> "unapologetic liberalism," as Steve Benen puts it, when it remained
>> >> anything but certain that such a space could be created with any
>> >> measure of success.
>>
>> >> The unexpected popularity of Olbermann's show early on cleared the way
>> >> for MSNBC to stack its nighttime lineup with pugnacious lefty hosts.
>> >> Indeed, it was Olbermann who invited Rachel Maddow on repeatedly as a
>> >> guest, raising her profile to the point where she got her own show.
>> >> Olbermann, followed by Maddow, proved in the face of enormous
>> >> skepticism that there's a huge audience out there for real liberal
>> >> talk-show hosts to adopt the sort of take-no-prisoners approach once
>> >> monopolized by the right. Only they accomplished this without
>> >> descending into the crackpot conspiracy mongering and all-around
>> >> ugliness of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
>>
>> >> Indeed, there's already talk that CNN might be interested in picking
>> >> up Olbermann. While that seems unlikely, given CNN's more staid air,
>> >> the mere fact that it's being discussed at all shows how much he
>> >> helped change the landscape.
>>
>> >> Olbermann may be gone, but the space he did so much to help create is
>> >> here to stay.
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>> >> More:
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>> >>http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/olbermann-hosts-last...
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>> >> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
>> >> Have a great day,
>> >> Tommy
>>
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