More facts behind the GE/Fox deal and a new Olbermann statement

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Posted by Dwight Rousu - via Jay Rosen, Glenn Greenwald
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Aug 4, 2009 - 4:25 PM PDT
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by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 5, 2009

GE corporate censorship of MSNBC news reporting is further pursued through contradictory statements by Olbermann. The trail gets muddied by Olbermann, and Greenwald tries to guide you through the equivocation.

Media ownership by a major military-industrial-media corporation should be unlawful. The devil should not own the press.

my basis for the added facts about the GE/Fox deal which I wrote in yesterday’s piece were statements made in not-for-attribution emails from a person who has ... More »

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