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I love Keith's shows. I hope they can resolve this.
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Mr. Olbermann, who was hired last year to be the top star of the upstart liberal news source, had been on the job scarcely three months when trouble started. He declined Currents requests to host special hours of election coverage, apparently out of frustration about technical difficulties that have plagued his 8 p.m. program, Countdown.
The channel decided to produce election shows without him. Mr. Olbermann, however, said he did not know that, and on Tuesday, the day of the Iowa caucus, the cold war of sorts reached a flash point. He held a staff meeting even though Countdown had been pre-empted.
Perceiving it to be an act of defiance, David Bohrman, Currents president, wrote a memo to Mr. Olbermanns staff telling them that the anchor had long ago given up the opportunity to anchor on election nights. We assumed, he wrote, that Keith had communicated to you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/business/media/olbermann-in-a-clash-at-new-job.html?_r=1&hp
Uh-huh, sure, NYT, I'm going to believe a word you say about Keith. Sorry, but the way Current has been ignored by any corporate media and they come up with something like this -- riiiiiight.
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)Thanks!
There's a kitten in there...
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)A barometer of Truth ,and What the forefathers had in mind, as far as a Citizen.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Dan Savage on Santorum is hard to top, as it were.