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TV Host Fired for Criticizing O'Reilly

Posted by Melissa McEwan, Shakesville at 6:34 AM on May 30, 2008.


A Boston news host is fired for reporting facts in a room full of journalists.
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Welcome to America 2.o, Barry Nolan:

CN8 host Barry Nolan, who publicly complained a few weeks ago about Bill O'Reilly receiving an award from the Boston chapter of National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, has been fired by the Comcast network. ... The host of "Backstage With Barry Nolan" had argued that O'Reilly, the volatile Fox News host and former Channel 7 anchor, was unworthy of the Governor's Award. (Past recipients include the likes of Mike Wallace, Ken Burns, and Natalie Jacobson.) "The idea of honoring someone who does their job with constant factual errors, name-calling, and mangling of the truth ... It's ridiculous," said Nolan, [who] was warned by his bosses at CN8 to pipe down, but at the May 10 dinner honoring O'Reilly he handed out a six-page document listing some of O'Reilly's wackier errors, utterances, and information about the talk-show host's sexual harassment settlement. ... He was immediately suspended without pay for two weeks and then fired over the phone Tuesday.
Love that Nolan handed out pamphlets detailing O'Reilly's idiocy; can't believe he got shitcanned for it; really can't believe they did it over the damn phone.

Nolan blogged about the experience at Think Progress:

O'Reilly was an appalling choice, not because of his political views, but because he simply gets the facts wrong, abuses his guests and the powerless in general, is delusional, and, well, you might want to Google: Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Plus there was that whole sexual harassment thing – the lawsuit he settled for an estimated $10 million. Not the kind of guy you normally think of when it comes time to pass out honors.

I found that most of my colleagues felt the same way. So, on May 10th at the Emmy Awards dinner, I quietly passed out a document that contained – not my opinion – but O'Reilly's own words and quotes from his sexual harassment lawsuit. And that is what got me fired. I got fired from my job on a news and information network for reporting demonstrably true things in a room full of news people.
I don't have anything particularly brilliant to add to that, although perhaps CN8 would benefit from hearing from some polite, teaspoon-wielding folks who don't appreciate their decision to fire someone for reporting facts. Email or call toll free: 1-877-862-9374.

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those San Francisco values
Posted by: Lauren on May 30, 2008 8:11 AM   
Current rating: 3    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
I can't wait for this bloviator to be OFF the telly. His constant dissing of our values is really annoying to me. Here is the kind of stuff he ignorantly criticizes.

This morning I was checking into the race in Indian Country and discovered a fantastic event. This is going to be SO COOL, I love food. Slow Foods Nation. Some extracts from the story,

American Indian energy bar goes national
Posted: May 21, 2008
by: The Associated Press

By Carson Walker -- Associated Press

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - America's craving for healthier foods has prompted a stampede of sorts for a modern version of the traditional Lakota food called wasna made by a company based on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

After two years of development, Native American Natural Foods launched the all-natural buffalo and cranberry Tanka Bar in October.

They were initially available online at www.tankabar.com and a few outlets in western South Dakota. - (snip) -

The attention led to an invitation from Slow Food Nation to promote the Tanka Bar at its first planned gathering over the Labor Day weekend in San Francisco.

The group's goal is to build a more sustainable food supply driven by values as well as the bottom line, and the Tanka Bar fits that mission, said Anya Fernald, Slow Food Nation executive director.

''It's a great way to keep traditional wisdom of a food alive that's palatable to today's American culture,'' she said.

Besides the 1-ounce Tanka Bar and smaller Tanka Bites, Native American Natural Foods will announce its next product at the event: a summer sausage made of buffalo, cranberry and wild rice called Tanka Wild, Tilsen said.
- snip -

This is just the kind of food event I have been waiting for for my whole life, yeah!

There is going to be some GOOD EATING there! Better bring a doggy bag.
Something good for me to look forward to ALL summer long. YUM!

Eat your heart out, Bill. Maybe YOU will be out of your job by then, TWO things for me to look forward to.

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Shame on CN8
Posted by: zipper696 on May 30, 2008 9:10 AM   
Current rating: 3    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
I've emailed them, as suggested and castigated them for "pandering to a blowhard and known sexual predator like Bill O'Reilly by dismissing a man with morals and standards"

Well, for what's it's worth...we can only hope that BillO will finally give himself an embolism and croak on-camera :0)

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» I'd just like to add Posted by: fanny666
Just another reason to hate Comcast
Posted by: truthteller on May 30, 2008 9:45 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Comcast took over my local cable service 5 or 6 years ago, and it has done nothing but get worse and more expensive. They have used their outrageous rates to build the tallest skyscraper in Philadelphia, and do things like make previously basic service level channels like MSNBC premium channels in some markets. Why should it be surprising they canned an honest news commentator and stuck up for the reprehensible Bill-O. After all, they cosponsored the 2000 GOP convention in Philly.

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Stand up guy
Posted by: carbon-based on May 30, 2008 12:23 PM   
Current rating: 1    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Not sure why this guy was really fired but O'Reilly is a pretty stand up guy. He's done quite a bit for abused children, taking on states like Vermont and their pro sexual abuser laws.

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» RE: Stand up guy Posted by: Lauren
» RE: Stand up guy Posted by: carbon-based
» RE: Stand up guy Posted by: aalif ba ta tha
Fire Comcast and Vote For Dems To Revive Antimonopoly Law Enforcement
Posted by: hadashito on May 30, 2008 1:46 PM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
I don't use Comcast, but one that's nearly as bad, COX. I have virtually no choice since Cox is a monololy in my area, and the local phone company is worse. The current mob of ISP's and telecommunication corporations can do anything they wish now that the Cheney/Bush boys are stiill in the White House .
So consumers can do two things:
Switch away from Comcast to another ISP or telephone company if possible,
And vote for Democrats in the next election while insisting that enforcement of antimonopoly laws be revived. While I might not trust the Democrats to enforce the laws without consumer pressure, I would definitely never expect the Repulblicans to do anything but stand up for their consituents, the big corporations. In fact, I am surprised the Republicans did not repeal the antimonopoly laws before 2006.

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Do whatever is needed to free the US media
Posted by: pirugenia on May 30, 2008 3:08 PM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Protest this decision, support the firee, ditch the firers, expose O'Reilly's rants, anything. The US corporate media is the real WMD.

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Criminal Conspiracy and Complicity to Commit Treason Charges!
Posted by: Bearzerker on Jun 1, 2008 1:54 AM   
Current rating: 5    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Bill O'lie-ly be dammed... BOYCOTT FOX NEWS CORP

I would like to see criminal conspiracy and complicity to commit treason charges
leveled at all the top executives of the Corporate controlled MSM,
and be taken immediately!

Why?... because they took pages directly from Joseph Goebbels play book;
1.)by assisting in the subversion of truth, in order to lead us into war.
2.)support in diverting TRILLIONS of taxpayers dollars and by profiting in this action.
3.)by supporting GRAFT, GREED & CORRUPTION
3.)material and emotional support of illegal detention and torture, plus condoning these activities including against their own [eg. competitors reporters photographers etc.]
4.)and by providing material and logistical Intelligence and Support contrary to existing conventions knowing that this will effect future war correspondents ability to perform their duties.

and all this was done for one reason... for the bottom line! ...PROFIT!...

But what really pisses me off is,
how the corporate executives running this dog and pony show made it look so ...[sl]easy...
SOMETHING/ANYTHING... MUST BE DONE!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
'Joseph Goebbels' Quotes;

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The
lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion."

"During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information."

"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


We must ensure a quality control mechanism to
eliminate Propaganda emanating from government agencies.

This can easily be done by revoking broadcasting rights to broadcast News information. News should never be infotainment trivalised for the bottom line, news reporting is a serious business and should be classified as such by being a privilege to broadcast... that being by issuing licenses that is separate from their regular broadcast licenses!

Simply put... a broadcast license fee structure should be reviewed yearly and with bottom line penalties for corporate structures that do not have regulated news coverage, rewarding those that do have licensed news reporting by being exempt from the yearly somberquete.

News licensing guidelines must be enforced to ensure non-governmental interference in the future, their-fore the licensing body MUST BE non-political.
[Don't need a repeat of Colin Powell's son issuing broadcast licenses now do we, never forget that]
To much damage has been brought through the corporate streamlining of news and information sources to our societies detriment, action is needed now.
Crimes have been perpetrated by and through this medium, and the sheeple "DO" care!

to all the Patrick Fitzgeralds out there... where are you?
now... right NOW... is your time!


jdfu

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WTF?
Posted by: Grandma Crabby on Jun 2, 2008 6:39 AM   
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The only award Bill-o deserves is the coveted Jerk of the Century award. Or maybe the Lying SOB award.

How can this idiot still have this much power?

Go check out my video where I ask the humble one why he needs to use a loofah!

http://www.youtube.com/user/Whoopteedoo

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