[Daktoria]

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2 ... olbermann/

10:06 p.m. | Updated For nearly a year now, Al Gore and Joel Hyatt have been building their liberal cable news channel, Current TV, with the mercurial television anchorman Keith Olbermann at its center.

This week, the center collapsed.

Current said on Friday afternoon that it had fired Mr. Olbermann — one of the nation’s most prominent progressive speakers — just a year into his five-year, $50 million contract. It was the culmination of months of murky disputes between Mr. Olbermann and the channel that he was supposed to save from the throes of ratings oblivion.

Way to go, bozo.

More in link.

[Arkady2009]

If Olbermann had a contract, he should get all of that $50 million now.

[Lightman]

Olbermann is occassionally entertaining but he must be the biggest douche in entertainment if he got fired from Current.

[Emerald Ocean]

Just think, this is the best and brightest the Left has to offer.

Air America

FAIL

CurrentTV

FAIL

[Emerald Ocean]

I personally like RT. They do not seem to be part of the media octopus that spans most of the globe.

[Rilzik]

I personally like RT. They do not seem to be part of the media octopus that spans most of the globe.

Lol. Russia Today.

Your sort of right. They aren't a part of our octopus.

[Daktoria]

If Olbermann had a contract, he should get all of that $50 million now.

Absolutely. Al Gore and the crew need to learn to respect property rights a little more.

Olbermann is occassionally entertaining but he must be the biggest douche in entertainment if he got fired from Current.

+1

[Zagadka]

Damn lamestream media!

[Captain Sam]

I personally like RT. They do not seem to be part of the media octopus that spans most of the globe.

Oh jesus...

Russia Today is Russia's state-run propaganda network. It intentionally lies and misrepresents stories on a daily basis. The only people that watch it are conspiracy theorists and folks that like having their anti-western narrative confirmed.

"Did the US government orchestrate 9/11? Here are some experts that will tell you they most certainly did."

Shit sourcing should be prohibited. If you can't find any others news organizations that can corroborate the story, don't source from Russia Today. If another news organization can confirm, then source from there.

[Ombrageux]

CS - Evidence? (And linking to one bad story, for example, isn't sufficient. You have to show that RT is systematically worse at sourcing and fact-checking than Western media.)

[Lexington]

The RT wikipedia article goes though a litany of critical articles.

[Emerald Ocean]

Shit sourcing should be prohibited. If you can't find any others news organizations that can corroborate the story, don't source from Russia Today. If another news organization can confirm, then source from there.

So unless RT sources from one of the tentacles, it is not legitimate?

RT is not anti-Western, it is anti Rupert Murdoch, anti-Zionist, and pro-getting to the bottom of what is screwing up the world.

[Far-Right Sage]

Captain Sam repeatedly makes this erroneous and bombastic claim and subsequently, without fail, refuses to back up his incorrect assertions.

Russia Today is, perhaps ironically, the best news source today for patriotic Westerners.