Keith Olbermann Announces Tonight's Countdown As His Last Show

Political | 206893 hits | Jan 21 5:57 pm | Posted by: Scape

“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.”

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by Scape
Sat Jan 22, 2011 5:05 am
by Freakinoldguy
Sat Jan 22, 2011 5:16 am
He must have run out of Sarah Palin jokes.

Now if we could just get rid of the rest of these supposed investigative journalists who don't do anything more than inflame situations and cause strife, we could get back to having real factual news on TV instead of the opinions of a bunch of overpaid, mindless, droning, political hacks.

One down a shitload more to go.
by Thanos
Sat Jan 22, 2011 5:16 am
It's probably Keith getting it over with before new MSNBC-owner Comcast came up with some bullshit reason to fire him. After that nonsense suspension they laid on him back in fall the writing on the wall was obvious for everyone to see. And Comcast executives are big donors to Republican candidates and causes so another clash with Olbermann was merely inevitable.

We'll probably begin to see MSNBC become more conservative, not as horrible as FOX but more likely in a useless puffball manner identical to the way CNN operates. This sucks because the loss of one of the few major media figures to cut through the TeaBircher crap and call out the GOP for what they actually are is not good for the overall dialogue and political process.
by Scape
Sat Jan 22, 2011 5:33 am
Why Keith Olbermann Is Out At MSNBC

It appears that the end of the Olbermann era at MSNBC was not “ordered” by Comcast, nor was it a move to tone down the network’s politics. Instead, sources inside the network say it came down to the more mundane world of office politics–Olbermann was a difficult employee, who clashed with bosses, colleagues and underlings alike, and with the Comcast-related departure of Jeff Zucker, and the rise of Maddow and O’Donnell, the landscape shifted, making an Olbermann exit suddenly seem well-timed.

In short, he may have had the ratings but he was high maintenance. A lot of people are saying it's house cleaning before comcast next week but I think it really was a HR issue. KO was an ass to management and this was their sendoff to him.
by GreenTiger
Sat Jan 22, 2011 5:46 am
From what I understand the was very hard to work with and he really pissed off management to the degree that even though he was the star they wanted him gone.

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