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DroppinScience
08-02-2009, 04:40 PM
The thread title may make it sound like Olbermann is losing his show, but that isn't the case. Glenn Greenwald exposes the "truce" between General Electric (which is the parent company of Olbermann's network, MSNBC) and News Corp. (which is the parent company to Bill O'Reilly's network, FOX News) to end the feud between the two anchors. The truce is unrelated to either of the show's ratings (both shows seem to be doing just fine in viewership), but it is because the feud could harm the UNRELATED corporate interests of the two parent companies (it seems O'Reilly criticized GE for their technology dealings with Iran).

I'll let Glenn Greenwald (http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/01/ge/) explain the rest.

So here we have yet another example -- perhaps the most glaring yet -- of the corporations that own our largest media outlets controlling and censoring the content of their news organizations based on the unrelated interests of the parent corporation. ...

Corporations trumping the public interest? Didn't see that one coming. :rolleyes:

yeahwho
08-03-2009, 08:48 AM
Excellent article and this seems to be an oft missed subject by the American public. Our main stream media is not only filtered through corporate offices, it is also censored by boardrooms of corporate power.

And our countries founders were worried about government control? I don't think any of them ever would of believed the morbid turn of events greed and power would place on the first amendment.

The story also shines a light on the generals who do war analysis and even though exposed through Pulitzer prized writing a few years back as having MAJOR conflicts of interest, they continue to do so with full network blessing and corporate backing.

I feel people sort of have to be moronic to take the evening news as if it has any objectivity. Watch Colbert, Stewart, read blogs and PBS.

Documad
08-03-2009, 09:11 PM
The general principle is true. Yeah, the corporate media is owned by corporations and works for the benefit of corporations. No surprise. I know the movie Network was before your time but it was on point.

Still, this alleged truce seems like a bad hook for the old story, given that Olbermann denies it.

DroppinScience
08-03-2009, 10:21 PM
The general principle is true. Yeah, the corporate media is owned by corporations and works for the benefit of corporations. No surprise. I know the movie Network was before your time but it was on point.


I saw "Network" in the mid-1990s thank you very much. I know how to use the library/video store, thank you. :)

Documad
08-03-2009, 11:47 PM
70s movie are the best.

DroppinScience
08-03-2009, 11:58 PM
70s movie are the best.

They're definitely one of the golden ages in Hollywood! (y)

DroppinScience
08-04-2009, 07:40 AM
I guess Glenn Greenwald has spoken too soon. The "truce" seems to be over now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/03/olbermann-slams-bill-orei_n_250569.html

DroppinScience
08-04-2009, 07:53 AM
Greenwald's response?

As for the comments Olbermann made tonight on Countdown -- in which he denied that GE barred him from mentioning O'Reilly and even mocked O'Reilly for working at a place (Fox) where corporate pressures restrict editorial freedom (claiming that such a thing would never, ever happen at MSNBC) -- for the moment, I will simply note what I wrote on Twitter: "Really surprised by the Olbermann denial -- there's lots and lots of evidence that the NYT's description about what GE did is 100% accurate."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/03/general_electric/index.html

RobMoney$
08-04-2009, 05:51 PM
You just know with a name like Glenn Greenwald, dude took a lot of asswhippings growing up.

The fuck were his parents thinking?

DroppinScience
08-04-2009, 06:37 PM
You just know with a name like Glenn Greenwald, dude took a lot of asswhippings growing up.

The fuck were his parents thinking?

This has what to do with... what?

RobMoney$
08-04-2009, 06:39 PM
You never seem to have a problem with Dorothy's incoherent ramblings?

saz
08-04-2009, 06:42 PM
yeah lambert, you don't know nuthin about nuthin. goddamn campus fuckface up dare in your ivory tower, fuckin' lambert! :mad:

RobMoney$
08-04-2009, 06:55 PM
yeah lambert, you don't know nuthin about nuthin. goddamn campus fuckface up dare in your ivory tower, fuckin' lambert! :mad:


This has what to do with... what?