I do not get why Keith Olbermann was suspended without pay, according to the NY Times for having contributed money to a couple of democrats. I know it was against their policy, yada yada yada. But Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch donated over a million dollars from the company that owns Fox to the Republicans, and all their reporters are free to donate (and generally do) to Republicans. While you might find some people who watch Fox, who do not recognize that the station is a champion of the Republican party, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who did not think Keith supported the Democrats.
I am tired of the mainstream news bending over backwards to pretend that it is not biased. While their heart may be more with the left than the right, the news they report is replete with the Republican talking points, and they repeat them like pablum, in their earnest effort to pretend to not be biased. Olbermann was one of the few news and opinion people outside of Fox, where you could get a viewpoint that was not totally muzzled. If all the right wing media get unfettered freedom to advocate for Republicans, when are we going to have to let guys like Olbermann, who has good ratings, say what he likes, and yes, support whomever he would like with campaign contributions.
As the times article pointed out, many contend that these policies enforced with little tact by MSNBC, are outmoded and reflect an era in TV when there was actually a news ethic. If MSNBC had one, they would not have had Olbermann on every night, nor would they uncritically parrot the Republican talking points on most other time slots.
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