Keith Olbermann is on the street, removed from his influential commentary position on MSNBC. Olbermann's virtual desk is being sold to Comcast, the US cable media giant, and Mr Olbermann's scathing views of the Bush administration and the failings of the Obama administration will not accompany it.
The trend of US mass media towards consolidation and monopoly continues with this ponderous take-over, and independent
views like Mr Olbermann's will be relegated to the internet. Television, the holy-of-holies for the US Pentagon and its industrial machine, will continue to sell conformity and war to mortgage-bound suburbanbites. Its "news" broadcasts will continue to have more to do with the plans of General Electric corporation than with reality.
The most alarming aspect of this mega-absorption is that its gigantic scale throws the US Government even further into the media complex, as its FCC quango controls deals worth billions of dollars and billions of viewers world-wide.
Olbermann has been booted out by bigness, but I think he will be happier expounding his views to millions on the internet. Welcome, Keith!
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Free-open source.
BTW Good to see you blogging once more.
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