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With Comcast/NBC merger is MSNBC About to Make a Right Turn?

Jan 22, 2011 03:33

UPDATE: The word out of MSNBC is that Keith Olbermann, who'd been negotiating his severance with one year left on his contract, can't move to another cable/broadcast news channel right away, so he may be "on ice" for some time. On the other hand, he could go back into sports talk ( Read more... )

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porcelain72 January 22 2011, 19:09:15 UTC

Olbermann will find another outlet soon, I have no doubt about it. His fan base is too large for someone to not figure out a way around his contract restrictions with MSNBC.

That being said, I'm finding it kind of amusing how people are carrying on over this. One person on my FB feed wrote a post making it sound like he died, saying "a liberal voice has been silenced" and "you're survived by our dear Rachel." Comcast fired him, they didn't take him out back and shoot him.

mollywobbles867 January 22 2011, 19:15:49 UTC

I can see him writing a book. It's an entirely different medium and therefore won't break the non-compete clause.

chaya January 22 2011, 20:06:26 UTC

Could he still vidblog?

mollywobbles867 January 23 2011, 01:44:49 UTC

I have no idea. A lawyer would have to examine the contract to see if that was a loophole.

kyra_neko_rei January 22 2011, 21:28:04 UTC

I wonder if him going on YouTube and doing a daily half-hour of political analyses would be considered "in competition?"

I mean, I highly doubt he needs any more income . . . and open-sourcing or volunteering his talents would send a grand message in itself, in the face of the budding corporatocracy arm of capitalism which is quite likely at play in his firing.

akuma_river January 25 2011, 08:02:57 UTC

Twitter.

He started his own hashtag #FKO
http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23FOK

The Guardian has an interesting article about how this was coming since last April but only picked up steam since the Merger talks.

There is interesting in that he may start his own media empire...like HuffingtonPost or The Daily Beast.

I'm wondering who he is going to bring with him.

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