The media is not fooling me

That is a line from an Ani Difranco song. Sadly, I don't think it's true. First off, many thanks to Hank for bringing this to my attention. Secondly, I am (or maybe was is a better term) a big fan of Keith Olbermann. I appreciated his rebuttal of Fox News' (or 'Fixed Noise' as he called them) ridiculous lies. I appreciated that he was not afraid to call out idiocy where he saw it. I liked that while it was all tempered with a heavy dose of opinion, for the most part he reported the facts. I do have to say that Rachel Maddow does a much better job of really digging deep into an issue and not being afraid to completely nerd out on it. I think that is because she has a graduate degree in Political Science, which means she really loves the stuff.

Anyway, while I understand there is editorial interference in any for-profit news organization (and don't we know it here in Spokane) the idea that the execs at these two networks could get together and tell their top-rated stars to just quit holding each other accountable is unconscionable. Furthermore, I will not support it. There are plenty of places for me to get political news out there (I'm talking about you, Politico), and I tend to get world events news from Time magazine and by using Google News to dig up stuff. So there isn't much reason for me to keep watching Olbermann's show (I never watched O'Rielly for more than shock value), and I also wonder about Ed Schultz, whose radio show I listen to almost each workday. Is someone at GE going to tell Ed to lay off Rush Limbaugh? Blah, this bothers me more than I care to admit. I always knew right-wing news was getting their marching orders from on high, but I liked to think the more centrist and left-leaning media didn't have to deal with it. Blah. I am sure I will write more on this as I go on. It'll be interesting to see if I can keep from watching (though I will most likely keep watching Rachel Maddow).