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You can ignore his obvious ignorance of that all you like, but it does nothing to strengthen your argument.
From http://tinyurl.com/2eavwvt:
Celebrate diversity, isn't that what you naive white Seattle libtards are always saying?
Different companies have different policies. It doesn't necessarily make one "good" and the other "bad." But if you agree to the rules, and then break them, there's going to be a problem.
Right Dan?
Srsly: Olbermann and the Fox hounds, easy as it is to distinguish between them, are still points along the continuum Albert Brooks talked about with Holly Hunter in Broadcast News:
And so sorry @9, but not everyone aspires to hold down the graveyard shift at 7-Eleven, like you do.
Still missing the point.
Who is to say Scarborough didn't follow policy? Nothing in your post indicates he did it behind the company's back.
Keep flogging that horse.
But this past election was infused with a shitload of money from people who want to maintain the status quo of corporations doing whatever they pretty much damn well please. The SCOTUS Citizens United made this possible. Olbermann's few thousand was spit in the bucket.
Campaign finance needs to be reformed. Now.
Ain't Sovereign Wealth Funds great?
However, I disagree with the argument that upholding a certain journalistic standard is "outdated" because Fox News has run roughshod over journalistic standards. I understand the temptation to say, "We should fight fire with fire!" But following Fox News's lead will just speed along the death of American journalism. The right gets away with it, so the left follows suit, then the right escalates, and so on. The victim of that back-and-forth is an increasingly ill-informed electorate.
but i do like your point. don't expect much influence upon Dan however. he's terribly narrow-minded, and that's why we luv him. I'll stop here because I don't want to belabor the fact of his meager intellectual capacity.
Corporatocracy -- very real, very scary, and with the $$ they have, I wonder how stoppable.
But it IS a First Amendment issue: your employer can no more tell you to whom to make campaign contributions than they can tell you for whom to vote; it's all political speech (as SCOTUS recently made perfectly clear) and it's all protected.
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Oh, I remember...
that an entity like msnbc would sanction someone who had the gall in the run up to the election to speak out openly against the dangers of the citizens united ruling and corporate influence on elections... only *gasp* mere days after that same election showed so painfully the disastrous effects of that influence.
No? OK.
MSNBC brass did us a favor.
If it makes you feel any better Bill Kristol IS defending him.
Yeah, I guess it makes total sense in this day-and-age that corporations now have MORE rights than individual citizens...
and doesn't that point to more of a slapdown about his stated opinions than about contractual trivialities that they chose to arbitrarily apply?
That said, it's the differences between Olbermann & Scarborough at MSNBC, and the differences between MSNBC and Fox that are galling.
This is why transparency in political donations is so freaking important. (And Olbermann complied with all those rules.)
Olbermann's replacement is himself getting axed for the same reason. I'm waiting to hear about them axing Scarborough too.
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Yeah.
Washington State has incredibly strong unions compared to the backwoods HATE-STATE known as Colorado which seems to attract non-natives from East, South, and West who have nothing better than to do than express their hatred of the "other." Thanks Colorado Springs--you shit-hole Glenn Beck diseased hemorrhoidal city.
That being said, it's being confirmed that NBC News (the parent body over MSNBC) doesn't hold MSNBC to the same "ethical" standards.
Is Keith being hypocritical? No. Philly Griffa is the one making the distinction that Joe is opinion and Keith is not. The visual evidence of course belies that tripe.
Now I have to figure out how to get rid of the slime that is Comcast. Phil Anschutz--the right-wing anti-gay piece of crap--is a major shareholder. (Yes, I need my Internet at the very least)
On top of that Colorado is still a piece-of-shit HATE-STATE.
the buttsore from this election won't be going away anytime soon....
look for lot's of retarded childish tantrums from danno
I demand he be reinstated immediately!
#ethics
I would really appreciate it if people would stop telling me that my job in broadcast journalism is "not a real job." Screw you. I busted my ass in school and bust my ass at my job to keep people informed. Just because the t.v. station in the U.S.A play on fear mongering that does not mean all journalists do so.
Finally Keith in still a private citizen and should be able to spend his money how he sees fit. And as it's been said before he didn't go on campaigning after the fact. So MSNBC is in the wrong and should pull the giant stick out of their asses.
Frankly Fox shouldn't be doing it, either. But hey, given that there's no law against these conflicts of interest, and given that the average Fox viewer doesn't give a shit about ethics/is willing to do whatever it takes to get their conservative mouthpieces into power, I don't see how Fox would be motivated to change.
This is quite normal in corporate America.
Corporations making campaign contributions has NOTHING to do with individual employees making contributions. Corporate contributions are made/approved by the board of directors, which is NOT comprised of employees of that company. There's not even any semantic hairsplitting going on here. One person is not going to have "the power" to decide which candidate to contribute to. The entire board will come to a decision as to which candidate will best benefit the company's interests, and contribute to it.
The more you know...
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Buchanan and Scarborough on the other hand are pundits. They are meant to have an opinion. I don't see anything inconsistent with holding news anchors to a higher objective standard than pundits.
I like MSNBC's plain news coverage. Kris Jansing and Alex Witt are great, objective anchors. Bret Baier and Chris Wallace on Fox, and Candy Crowley and Anderson Cooper (for the most part) on CNN are likewise.
The problem these news channels have is when they try to sell opinionated pundits as serious news anchors. There should be a line between the two and between shows of one or the other. When they stray it causes problems. That is why Dan Rather caused such a firestorm. I used to like Brit Hume as an anchor, but it made me uncomfortable to see him as an opinion panelist on the Wallace show.
200k strong to Save Olbermann!
This has NOTHING to do with Olberman's donations. It has everything to do with punishing him and sending a signal to so- called liberals that you will lose your job if you criticize the current powers that be. A columnist in Grants Pass OR was fired after 9/11 because he dared to criticize George Bush.
It's the same old , same old bull shit and we need to be honest about it.
If Wikipedia's entry for Scarborough is correct, "Morning Joe" didn't premiere until 2007.
If.
If Wikipedia's entry for Scarborough is correct, "Morning Joe" didn't premiere until 2007.
If.
"Liberals need to wise up if they're going to fight back. Corporations are eating us alive with their money."
Put down the bong, moron. Liberals need to start coming up with policies that garner more than 17-20% support among the voting populace. Your stupid refusal to appeal to, you know A FUCKING MAJORITY of voters is what eats you alive in the political arena.
But hey, you are right, is the The Man, er, the Corporations that are the problem, not your policy preferences and inability to garner support.
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