An INTERESTING little Ditty considering Keith's suspension

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/business/media/04suit.html?_r=2&dbk

An Award, Criticism and Perils for Comcast

Criticizing Fox News is a year-round sport for many hosts on MSNBC, the cable news channel, and especially for Keith Olbermann, whose verbal spitballs at the Fox host Bill O’Reilly have occasionally put his parent company, NBC Universal, on edge.

Pending government approval, MSNBC will soon have a new parent company, Comcast, and that may prove to be awkward for Mr. Olbermann and other TV critics of Fox. As a distributor of cable programming, Comcast is in business with Fox and its parent company, the News Corporation.

The business interests of Comcast and the News Corporation were brought to light in a lawsuit by Barry Nolan, a Comcast employee whose protest of Mr. O’Reilly cost him a $200,000-a-year job two years ago. Mr. Nolan later protested his firing, and last month, he lost the case.

In an extensive review of Mr. Nolan’s case for the Columbia Journalism Review in August, the writer Terry Ann Knopf asserted that Mr. Nolan’s firing reflected the “corrosive influence of over-concentrated corporate power.”


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Interesting.....

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Impossible to believe that is an irrelevant piece of info.Is Rachel Next??

Now there will be NOWHERE to go to hear the truth....except FreeSpeechTV..

[Donnachaidh]

3. Rachel, Ed, even Ratigan

This is disgusting.

[glinda]

14. More than that. It is a violation of freedom of speech now. With no hope or little

hope of any outlets and that those outlets will be targeted, there is total takeover of free speech. This should be a lawsuit right now.

[crazylikafox]

2. yep, comcast is a very right-wing organization.

I'm sure this is no coincidence.

[Angry Dragon]

4. Good thing we don't need those regulations any more

[madmax]

5. Am I the only one who finds this

may be the beginning of bigger plans to curtail free flow of information? Please tell me I'm over-reacting.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. I do not think you are over-reacting. This is part of the 2012 repuke plan.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. No you are not

1984, though not the government, was not fiction but prophecy... that is why Gibson's Neuromancer is more appropriate.

[madmax]

9. So much to read so little time. Read 1984 years ago.

Another re-read. It's a friggen shame that diapers and bullshit of daily life ate my brain while I wasn't paying attention. But, it's coming back slowly. Thanks to you guys.

[texastoast]

10. I don't think you are overreacting

I'm just worried NPR will be next.

[druidity33]

12. Hah! NPR was first...

they got high-jacked by the right wing during the Bush years.

:shrug:

[texastoast]

15. I know they are no longer in some smaller markets

But I still hear them in Htown on the public radio stations. We are going to have to bolster our support of them. Criminee.

[thereismore]

6. Why won't Murdoch just die? Oh nevermind. The corporation lives on anyway. Let's all

watch Jersey Shore and drink Coors Lite and be happy. Right?

[EC]

11. I'm wondering now if the price increase Fox was charging

Comcast to air it's shows has anything with suddenly suspending of Worst Persons and Keith? Maybe they lowered their prices for Comcast roping in of critizium...around the time of the disputes I think Keith was starting to make some headway with people finally seeing Fox as they really are, because viewership had fallen.

[glinda]

13. good point