It isn't about Keith.

[madamesilverspurs]

It's about the consolidation of media ownership into fewer and fewer hands. With fewer messengers it's easier to control the message. Our media, print and broadcast, are becoming more like Fox, not less. Olbermann's departure is a harbinger of worse to come. Those scarce liberal voices remaining, blessedly welcome though they are, serve as window dressing for the disinformation industry. The public trust that once imbued our journalistic enterprises has been relegated to that dusty corner where inconvenient ideals become forgotten relics.

And were it not for the internet, how many of us would even realize what is transpiring?

=

[H2O Man]

1. I think

that it's both.

[grasswire]

2. I think it's something else.

I think it's about using Keith to injure liberals/progressives.

I say that because of the manner it was done. Thuggish, brutal, like the snatching of a family member at night. Meant to be cruel. Meant to hurt in a searing way.

The attack was on us.

[EFerrari]

9. Agreed. n/t

[leveymg]

3. I think it was ideologically motivated and intended as a warning to the rest of us.

Shut up, go along, and maybe, just maybe, they'll let you survive.

Corporate Terrorism. Nothing less.

[grasswire]

4. Get over it, Sore Loserman

I'm surprised someone hasn't said that to us yet.

[leveymg]

5. The weird thing is that we undoubtedly won in a very big way just 2 years ago. Yet, they act like

that election never happened.

Barack Obama and the Senate leadership never acted that way, either.

We won, man. But, the game remained the same. Goes to prove the game of politics isn't about who wins elections in America, it's about who ultimately wields power, and it isn't the people.

[intheflow]

6. I think

it's only a matter of time before Comcast decides DU, Daily Kos, Common Dreams, etc. are a bunch of loose cannons and blocks the sites from subscribers.

[corpseratemedia]

8. then people will go back to distributing weeklies, or dailies..or "worse"...

whispering.

Because it just won't change people getting upset when they no longer having enough money to pay for their basics when their SS is cut. It won't change how even uglier those big box buildings will look when their SS receiving customers (and millions upon millions of permanently unemployed and outsourced workers) can no longer purchase basics from their low-cost stores and those stores go out of business and the whole country is one gargantuan land dump. It won't change the worsening economic situation and the desperation people feel, like when they start canceling the cable and the internet anyway, because they need to pay for food and gas, or rent. CORPORATE CENSORSHIP OF REALITY-BASED INDIVIDUALS WILL NEVER CHANGE THE WORSENING REALITY UNREGULATED CORPORATIONS ARE CREATING.

It'll be like collective bile, comca$t. You'll never win.

[rhett o rick]

7. Pres Obama seems ok with media monopolies. nm

[ladjf]

10. A bad symptom of the transfer of wealth that has largely been

facilitated by the criminally unfair tax cuts for the rich. Any politician who isn't working toward
rectifying this situation is a crooked politician.