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Update: Olbermann Responds – Keith Olbermann Fired by Current TV
+++++ Scroll down for the Update +++++Not really surprising – Keith Olbermann is just too high maintenance.Current TV has fired Keith Olbermann, a network spokeswoman told TheWrap.
The controversial news host has been at the fledgling cable channel for less than a year.
Eliot Spitzer will replace Olbermann starting Friday night, the network announced.
Olberman got into a contretemps with the network over his role during Republican primary election coverage last December. But the host has a history of butting heads with management and other bosses, starting with ESPN, including MSNBC and now with the leadership at Current.
In its move on Friday, Current was clearly fed up with its star newsman.
“Current was also founded on the values of respect, openness, collegiality, and loyalty to our viewers. Unfortunately these values are no longer reflected in our relationship with Keith Olbermann and we have ended it,” the network wrote in a letter to viewers published on its website.
So long, Keith.
You really won’t be missed and I hope you have some savings/investments, since I think you are pretty much finished in television.
Update:
My full statement:
I’d like to apologize to my viewers and my staff for the failure of Current TV.
Editorially, Countdown had never been better. But for more than a year I have been imploring Al Gore and Joel Hyatt to resolve our issues internally, while I’ve been not publicizing my complaints, and keeping the show alive for the sake of its loyal viewers and even more loyal staff. Nevertheless, Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt, instead of abiding by their promises and obligations and investing in a quality news program, finally thought it was more economical to try to get out of my contract.
It goes almost without saying that the claims against me implied in Current’s statement are untrue and will be proved so in the legal actions I will be filing against them presently. To understand Mr. Hyatt’s “values of respect, openness, collegiality and loyalty,” I encourage you to read of a previous occasion Mr. Hyatt found himself in court for having unjustly fired an employee. That employee’s name was Clarence B. Cain. http://nyti.ms/HueZsa
In due course, the truth of the ethics of Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt will come out. For now, it is important only to again acknowledge that joining them was a sincere and well-intentioned gesture on my part, but in retrospect a foolish one. That lack of judgment is mine and mine alone, and I apologize again for it.
Good luck, Keith, with that next job.
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Keith Olbermann Fired by Current TV
Not really surprising – Keith Olbermann is just too high maintenance.Current TV has fired Keith Olbermann, a network spokeswoman told TheWrap.
The controversial news host has been at the fledgling cable channel for less than a year.
Eliot Spitzer will replace Olbermann starting Friday night, the network announced.
Olberman got into a contretemps with the network over his role during Republican primary election coverage last December. But the host has a history of butting heads with management and other bosses, starting with ESPN, including MSNBC and now with the leadership at Current.
In its move on Friday, Current was clearly fed up with its star newsman.
“Current was also founded on the values of respect, openness, collegiality, and loyalty to our viewers. Unfortunately these values are no longer reflected in our relationship with Keith Olbermann and we have ended it,” the network wrote in a letter to viewers published on its website.
So long, Keith.
You really won’t be missed and I hope you have some savings/investments, since I think you are pretty much finished in television.
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Day By Day March 30, 2012 – Trash Talk
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@Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-03-30
- CA-26: Handicapping Linda Parks and Tony Strickland | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/xg4AiyVb #
- Gingrich hits new low in Gallup Poll http://t.co/iRTZneiA #
- Adelson says Gingrich 'at the end of his line' http://t.co/QUzTkLeu #
- RE: @LPUN2KZ4AGZEEIQNC4W3ZSW3HY No, Joe, I am not missing the point.
A number of Democrat activists have been quit… http://t.co/SY6ukG9i #
- Gingrich hits new low in Gallup Poll http://t.co/hxbT3iXF #
- Adelson says Gingrich 'at the end of his line' http://t.co/80InEGWB #
- CA-26: Handicapping Linda Parks and Tony Strickland | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/9sjjuLkT #
- The Morning Flap: March 29, 2012 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/KbCGDb4L #
- Flap's Dentistry Blog: New Study: Retention Rates for Composites the Same for Self-Etch and Total Etch http://t.co/kpN0Iime #
- CA-26: Handicapping Linda Parks and Tony Strickland http://t.co/KvnKYD5k #
- The Morning Flap: March 29, 2012 http://t.co/nx3L3IYj #
- New Study: Retention Rates for Composites the Same for Self-Etch and Total Etch http://t.co/9h6ihGwB #
- I unlocked the Couch Potato(10) sticker on @GetGlue! http://t.co/JXQAJB55 #
- The Afternoon Drill: March 29, 2012 http://t.co/qFc0dVAC #
- AD-38: Rep Tom McClintock to Headline Reception/Fundraiser for Scott Wilk http://t.co/h01zmd0I via @flap #
- Blame Palin? 'Kill Zimmerman' Twitter Account Launched http://t.co/4Rxgg8lY #
- Report: Zimmerman Told Police Teen Punched Him Before Fatal Shooting http://t.co/7KCqVXgm #
- EXCLUSIVE: Robert Zimmerman interview http://t.co/R29sQpyT #
- The Morning Flap: March 29, 2012 http://t.co/AuN01u5Y #
- Day By Day March 29, 2012 – Always http://t.co/XNmhi9HG #
- San Francisco Plastic Bag Ban to Go National? http://t.co/IoGU5FjI #
- AD-48: California Assemblyman Roger Hernandez Arrested for Suspicion of Drunk Driving http://t.co/4JObHW5T via @flap #
- My Fault? https://t.co/msaUhfUH #
- Rubio: I’m not going to be vice president http://t.co/KGBmmvTm #
- Tampa Bay vs. Philadelphia – getting closer to opening day http://t.co/ZxIPnqR2 @GetGlue #ESPN #
- Video: Rep Bobby Rush Wears a Hoodie in Congress – Kicked Off the Floor | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/hgRnvB4K #
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-03-29 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/X3VwJHrj #
- The Morning Flap: March 28, 2012 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/ISzRkrfu #
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-03-29 http://t.co/gfrWldc8 #
- Video: Rep Bobby Rush Wears a Hoodie in Congress – Kicked Off the Floor http://t.co/acwJGS0V #
- The Morning Flap: March 28, 2012 http://t.co/qHFWoZjh #
- Day By Day March 28, 2012 – Made http://t.co/ZOHQEQZ9 #
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-03-28 http://t.co/gS1tBrwf #
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