Saturday, August 01, 2009

Is this why Keith Olbermann is on vacation?

Glenn Greenwald:
GE's silencing of Olbermann and MSNBC's sleazy use of Richard Wolffe

Update: Keith Olbermann:
MSNBC President Phil Griffin has reportedly told network producers to “restrain from criticizing Fox directly,” and Fox staffers were told to “be fair” to General Electric, MSNBC’s parent company. Olbermann said that he personally was “party to no deal.”

7 comments:

Ali said...

Isn't that sickening? Et tu, keith. :(

Mike Goldman said...

Rachel was off yesterday too. Wonder what's up with that.

ellroon said...

Apparently we just think Democrats won the election. The effing Republicans and their agenda of greed and disregard for humanity still rules...

Anonymous said...

Alas, is there no where to go that the tentacles of the right wingers do not reach? Is this not the definition of journalistic censorship? Guess I'll spend my evenings staring at my radio and listening to NPR.

ellroon said...

It will be interesting to watch what Olbermann does when he comes back on the set. Will he or won't he attack O'Reilly?

Anonymous said...

he's probably hoping that during his vacation the american public, with its minute attention span, will forget about how he's been forced to alter the content of his reporting. censorship happens all the time and the blatancy of this shows that these corporations are used to getting away with it.

ellroon said...

Yay! Olbermann back and he attacks O'Reilly! Life is good.