(I haven't had a good read on Olbermann in a while, honestly. At one point he can seem visionary, and the very next, he can be as petty as any one of his frequent verbal targets he accuses of same. But this "reveal"--which also is one of my biggest issues--puts some stock in his credibility that he has been lacking since the 2008 election.Corporate media ownership has neutered factual news reporting--period. The corporate mainstream media is a propaganda machine first, revenue generating machine next, and occasional source for news as a distant third. Olbermann's previous employer, MSNBC is owned by NBC which is owned by General Electric, which owns several defense contractor firms. See how direct that is? If Olbermann is really planning on breaking out of his former corporate restraints and delivering true unbiased journalism, more power to him. Of course...his new boss...is Al Gore...heh...;-)--jef)
RAW Story+++++++++++
- Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
The liberal host of MSNBC's Countdown gave his last broadcast for the cable news network he called home for eight years in January. The following month, Olbermann accepted a job as Chief News Officer of Current Media, the parent company of Current TV, where he will start his hour long new show, also called Countdown, on June 20.
"This is not specific to NBC or MSNBC, but I just saw an environment growing in which there were more and more conflicts of interest within these large national corporations -- or even multinational corporations -- where no matter what you said, you had the potential to affect some other part of the big company's business."
"The more that that's true, the less they want you to say. And even if there is no explicit attempt to censor or to proscribe or otherwise to interfere, there becomes an issue of the larger the corporation, the more fear in the part of the people involved in its production."
"My hope was to go and get an environment where there wouldn't be any of that and I think I've found it." ~ Keith OlbermannOlbermann believes that he should not have been suspended from MSNBC for making political contributions to three Democratic candidates because he was an opinion journalist. He said it was not a conflict of interest for a nearly universally liberal opinion journalist like himself to donate to liberal candidates.
The Current TV cable channel went on the air in August 2005 and is led by former Vice President Al Gore and businessman Joel Hyatt.
During the interview, Olbermann also explained why he does not vote and how the Bush administration responded to his show at MSNBC.
Listen to the Fresh Air interview, courtesy of NPR, below:
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