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Parry at Consortium News ..

Though Olbermann hosted MSNBC’s top-rated news show, “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” he disappeared from the network with only the briefest of good-byes. Certainly, the callous treatment of Olbermann by the MSNBC brass would never be replicated by Rupert Murdoch’s right-wing Fox News toward its media stars .. Now, with Olbermann’s permanent departure on Friday, the remainder of MSNBC’s liberal evening line-up .. must face the reality that any sustained friction with management could mean the bum’s rush for them, too. The liberal hosts also must remember that MSNBC experimented with liberal-oriented programming only after all other programming strategies, including trying to out-Fox Fox, had failed – and only after it became clear that President George W. Bush’s popularity was slipping .. The troubling message to progressives is that they remain essentially orphans when it comes to having their political interests addressed by any corporate news outlet

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