The Noble Lie

Those of you who tune into MSNBC for Olbermann's rousing rants against "Bill-O," "Manatee," and the other dopes at "Fixed News" might need to spend more time trolling the blogosphere. Conversely, if you cheer on Bill O'Reilly as he calls out Keith Olbermann for his far left, anti-American screeds, you'll have to tune into Rush Limbaugh or the like.

In our corporate-controlled media system, when your station's CEOs meet behind closed doors and decide your journalistic flame war is bad for business, it will end.

• Glenn Greenwald - GE's silencing of Olbermann and MSNBC's sleazy use of Richard Wolffe (didn't know Wolffe was a corporate PR hack, not surprised)
• New York Times - Fox and G.E. Reach Deal to End O'Reilly-Olbermann feud
  

Update

Check it out, turns out Olbermann isn't so gagged after all. Olbermann claims this is just one more chess move on Rupert Murdoch's part in the game to get "Countdown" cancelled. If Greenwald hadn't have written his scathing blog posts when he did (which Olbermann respectfully references below), I wonder if the cards would have fallen the same way, regarding Olbermann or Richard Wolffe.

• Olbermann writes on Daily KOS that the rumors of his demise have been greatly exaggerated -- oh, and Dick Wolffe ain't comin round here no more (at least until vetted further)
• Time Blogs - The Morning After: Olbermann-O'Reilly feud back on, if it ever was off
• Huffington Post - Keith Olbermann Playing Viewers for Fools