Olbermann and O’Reilly Bury the Hatchet August 1, 2009
Posted by Jehuda in Uncategorized.Tags: Entertainment, media bias, News, Politics, TV
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Mediaite: Nobody wins, especially the viewers.
Glen Greenwald doesn’t like it either: “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.”
I’ve only worked entertainment news. But it is a well-known fact that truly independent, non-profit driven, TV news divisions at the networks have been a thing of the past for some time. And they have never existed in cable news, so I’m not really surprised at any of this.
At any rate, both Olbermann and O’Reilly (and their respective staffs) have no choice but to answer to their corporate parents for the simple reason that they are their bosses. And if the bosses want them to stop talking about something or other, they can either quit or walk the company line.
That’s how it works, for better or worse. Greenwald and everyone else who thought they had been actually enjoying news content free of corporate involvement for all these years were right in a sense: corporate only gets involved when it has to.
