More facts behind the GE/Fox deal and a new Olbermann statement
From Glenn Greenwald - The MSNBC anchor confirms that my two columns on this matter were factually accurate. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu - via Jay Rosen, Glenn GreenwaldReview
GE corporate censorship of MSNBC news reporting is further pursued through contradictory statements by Olbermann. The trail gets muddied by Olbermann, and Greenwald tries to guide you through the equivocation.
my basis for the added facts about the GE/Fox deal which I wrote in yesterday’s piece were statements made in not-for-attribution emails from a person who has first-hand knowledge of GE’s newsroom edict.
What actually happened is exactly what I wrote: GE executives issued an order that Olbermann must refrain from criticizing O’Reilly, and Olbermann complied with that edict.
Once the NYT exposed this deal between GE and News Corp., MSNBC executives allowed Olbermann to attack O’Reilly last night because neither Olbermann nor MSNBC could afford to have it appear that their top journalist was being muzzled by GE. For obvious reasons, such an impression would be humiliating and would harm MSNBC’s “journalism” brand.
Dwight posted this story.
Media ownership by a major military-industrial-media corporation should be unlawful. The devil should not own the press.