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kiknkorea
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 Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:17 pm Post subject: MSNBC suspends Olbermann over political contributions |
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MSNBC suspended "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann Friday after the news that he donated to three Democratic candidates.
"I became aware of Keith's political contributions late last night," MSNBC President Phil Griffin said in a statement. "Mindful of NBC News policy and standards, I have suspended him indefinitely without pay."
Olbermann gave the maximum individual donation of $2,400 to three candidates in Tuesday's election: Arizona Reps. Gabrielle Giffords and Raul Grijalva and Senate hopeful Jack Conway, who lost in Kentucky to Republican Rand Paul. (Grijalva appeared on Olbermann's "Countdown" on Oct. 28, the same day the host donated to his campaign; Conway was last a guest in May).
Olbermann, in a statement to Politico, said that he "did not privately or publicly encourage anyone else to donate to these campaigns nor to any others in this election or any previous ones." Also, Olbermann said he had not "previously donated to any political campaign at any level."
But the revelation raised clear ethical issues.
Olbermann, a liberal commentator, gives his opinions each night on the air. But NBC News editorial staffers -- like journalists at most news organizations -- are forbidden from giving to political candidates. Also, Olbermann anchored election coverage Tuesday night without disclosing that he'd given to candidates who were running for office.
By punishing the network's biggest star, Griffin showed how little tolerance there is for hosts to make undisclosed political contributions while covering those political races. |
I'm happy to see MSNBC holding him accountable to their rules.
I don't see him being fired or anything, but at least it's something.
Full article-
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101105/bs_yblog_upshot/msnbc-suspends-olbermann-over-political-contributions |
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Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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By contrast, a representative of Fox News is going around talking about how the Republican Presidential Primary will be "A Fox News production," because, "we own all of the people who are running for president." The first time he brought this up it seemed like he was joking, but then he said it again, and frankly it's not entirely unrealistic; even if Fox News didn't actually create a program specifically regarding this political event, the fact remains that a huge portion of the GOP's presidential hopefuls are Fox News employees.
I think it's time for people who talk about MSNBC as if it were somehow a liberal mirror of Fox News to rethink their position. They've always been pretty obviously wrong, but at this point it's outright silly comparing the two organizations. MSNBC has a slant; Fox News has an agenda that it vigorously pursues through knowing misinformation and propaganda. |
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