This was never a good idea. Letting a cable provider buy a network. A Republican owned cable provider. But money talks. So on top of the possibility of Comcast attempting to deny access to NBC to competing providers (TW, Cablevision, Directv), we now have the firing of the most popular MSNBC host, who is responsible for the cable network's current success (plus bringing Rachel Maddow on the network).
Comcast has already denied involvement, but the right wing has denied that vicious retoric was responsible for Tucson. In other words, bogus nonsense. Let's see how long Maddow, Ed Schulz & Lawrence O'Donnell last. This is technology at it's worst. Like Conan, Olbermann will now be off the air for an extended time.
Also remember, he was on NBC Sunday Night Football because of his background as a sports anchor, but was removed from that, undoubtably because his liberal political views didn't mesh with the suits who believe that football fans are conservative, & wouldn't watch if he was on. Really? So no liberal likes football. Good luck with that one.
One silly rumor is that Olbermann will create a Huffington Post like blog or network. This makes no sense. He would have to have a large staff to do that. A podcast might be a possibility. He wouldn't have to worry about censorship, but how would he make money & what would the viewership be? It will be interesting to see where this leads.
Comcast has already denied involvement, but the right wing has denied that vicious retoric was responsible for Tucson. In other words, bogus nonsense. Let's see how long Maddow, Ed Schulz & Lawrence O'Donnell last. This is technology at it's worst. Like Conan, Olbermann will now be off the air for an extended time.
Also remember, he was on NBC Sunday Night Football because of his background as a sports anchor, but was removed from that, undoubtably because his liberal political views didn't mesh with the suits who believe that football fans are conservative, & wouldn't watch if he was on. Really? So no liberal likes football. Good luck with that one.
One silly rumor is that Olbermann will create a Huffington Post like blog or network. This makes no sense. He would have to have a large staff to do that. A podcast might be a possibility. He wouldn't have to worry about censorship, but how would he make money & what would the viewership be? It will be interesting to see where this leads.
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