The US federal government last week formally approved the sale, which is expected to close sometime this week. While Comcast denied any involvement, the Washington Post reported, “One person intimate with MSNBC’s management … said there were strong indications that the timing wasn’t coincidental. With Olbermann’s patron, NBC chief executive Jeff Zucker, no longer part of the company’s leadership, ‘the timing was right’ to seek the removal of the successful but difficult host and anchor….”
Not That Keith Olbermann is Really Much of a Liberal
given his support of Obama during the primaries and turned a lot of people off, but his departure is another example of the rightward lurch of the media:
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