On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Wesley McGee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, his claim has evolved to be where it about the work conditions which > ... well, I'm going to guess that the real issue is (a) he's again picking > a fight with his bosses over some slight he received, real or imagined... > likely he making 8 o'clock his last stand (again). > > > http://www.mediaite.com/tv/keith-olbermanns-takes-another-shot-at-current-tv-lawyers-now-involved/ > http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/01/05/keith-olbermann-clashes-current-tv/ "(SNIP) (On Dec. 30, Olbermann tweeted that he’d informed the writer of that piece that “anybody who describes my disposition towards Current as “disgruntled” is either uninformed, working from a personal agenda, wrong — or all of the above.”) Where does that leave Olbermann now? A rep for Current TV tells EW the network has asked him to headline its coverage of the Jan. 10 Republican primary in New Hampshire and is “hopeful he’ll do it,” though he has yet to give an answer. Olbermann’s manager, Michael Price, has told the *Times* he does expect Olbermann to stay at the channel, which began airing *Countdown*last June. Olbermann has taken to Twitter to comment on the media storm surrounding the situation, saying nothing makes him laugh more than reading about himself. He’s ridiculed one online publication for using a photo of him from the ninth grade to art a gallery of his history of “disputes,” and again took a jab at the writer of the* Times* article arguing that “2 of the 3 networks [ESPN, Fox and MSNBC] he claims I ‘estranged’ myself from later asked me to rejoin them.” When *NYT* assistant managing editor Jim Roberts tweeted, “Is Current TV too low-rent for @KeithOlbermann<http://twitter.com/#%21/KeithOlbermann>?” with a link to the piece, Olbermann response included the words, “not really, no.”" -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
