{"id":188234,"date":"2010-11-05T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/05\/well-this-is-shaping-up-to-be-a-crappy-day\/"},"modified":"2010-11-05T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:42:00","slug":"well-this-is-shaping-up-to-be-a-crappy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/05\/well-this-is-shaping-up-to-be-a-crappy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, This is Shaping Up to Be a Crappy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, I <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/we-had-to-put-lavi-to-sleep-today.html\">have to put my cat to sleep<\/a>, and now <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/05\/olbermann-suspended-from-msnbc-for-campaign-donations\/\">Keith Olbermann has been suspended by MSNBC for making campaign contributions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Keith Olbermann, the pre-eminent liberal voice on American television, was suspended Friday after his employer, MSNBC, discovered that he made campaign contributions to three Democrats last month.<\/p>\n<p>The indefinite suspension was a stark display of the clash between objective journalism and opinion journalism on television.<\/p>\n<p>Many prominent liberals and conservatives immediately called on MSNBC to reinstate Mr. Olbermann, who is usually outspoken but who had no comment on his suspension Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The contributions came to light in an article by Politico Friday morning. Mr. Olbermann acknowledged in a statement that last month he donated $2,400 to the campaigns of Representatives Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and Attorney General Jack Conway of Kentucky, who lost his Senate race to Rand Paul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that this is a stupid standard to hold straight journalists to, much less someone who is clearly an talking-head opinion type.<\/p>\n<p>In the article, there is a suggestion that this is an attempt to make brand differentiation with Fox, where, for example, Hannity gave to Michelle &#8220;I used to be the nuttiest person in Congress, but the elections moved the bar&#8221; Bachmann, but I don&#8217;t live in media executives heads, nor would I ever want to.<\/p>\n<p>It does appear that Keith will be back at some point in the not to distant future, though.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t DC at the by invitation only <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, I have to put my cat to sleep, and now Keith Olbermann has been suspended by MSNBC for making campaign contributions: Keith Olbermann, the pre-eminent liberal voice on American television, was suspended Friday after his employer, MSNBC, discovered that he made campaign contributions to three Democrats last month. The indefinite suspension was a stark &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,1129,1064,1003,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-journalism","category-media","category-philosophy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}