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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnyone still watching Current TV?
It's okay if you do and like the main shows, but I watched for KO. I've been getting an email from them about twice a week or so, and since I no longer watch any of the other shows, I decided it wasn't important to keep getting the enemsletter. I went over to cancel, and a little box comes to ask why you no longer are subscribing, so I simply said without KO, there was no reason to keep subscribing.
I don't know who among you watched, like me, only for KO, perhaps enough people quitting their subscriptions to the email, they might finally get a clue that letting KO go was not a good thing?
warrior1
(12,325 posts)northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Smilo
(1,944 posts)Love TYT and the others and documentaries.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)I watch Cenk. Never really got to watch KO. Loved watching him on MSNBC but I really only get about 40 minutes to watch anything (if I get the time at all) and Cenk is on then. Love him! Don't always agree with him, but still love him. You should check out his show sometime.
broiles
(1,367 posts)While I loved Keith, I have been enjoying Eliot Spitzer. And I try never to miss TYT. I would watch War Room, but there's Rachel.
julian09
(1,435 posts)I do watch Current TV, Cenk, Spitzer, War Room, then Lawrence, Ed Schultz, Rachel. You can reverse channels and do Ed Schultz, Rachel, Lawrence then Cenk, Spitzer, War Room.
I'm used to having Keith absent, I also like Chris Hayes and Melissa Harris Perry on weekends.
There is a lot of other talent to view beside Olberman. He made a concious decision to not be a team player.
broiles
(1,367 posts)I agree the Up with Chis Hayes and Melissa are great. Up maybe the best thing on TV.
gateley
(62,683 posts)demosincebirth
(12,537 posts)zipper up.
gateley
(62,683 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)Plus, I'm not a fan of womanizers...and of course that's his personal business, but I don't have to support it. That's my personal business.
Anyhoo... I haven't watched Current since Keith was let go.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)DemocracyInaction
(2,506 posts)Love to listen to hear her in the morning. Want to start watching Bill Press, too.
FarPoint
(12,368 posts)It's great....
Daniel537
(1,560 posts)spockeye
(238 posts)I flip between Ed and Eliot, but I DVR Eliot to give Current the ratings. Check out Bill Press and Stephanie Miller weekday mornings. I have a good attitude all day after watching Stephanie.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)I do watch... just about all the sows, but I can't say Viewpoint has my attention, which is in the spot where Olbermann was.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Friday I catch the Governor on the repeat.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Except for Rachel Maddow and the MSNBC weekend morning shows.
Letting KO go was the only option available to Current. The guy is an egotistical jerk in spit of his talents.
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)lost feeds. They screwed up. Not to mention at one point I remember them saying Keith would be like News director or something and that fell through.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)But then again at this point this is the fourth major network and even more hilarious, Spitzer, same set...no issues and a tie and does not look like he rolled out of bed.
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)comcast took over MSNBC that they are right wing leaning that They tried to basically suspend Keith for "Election donation" violation (Which if people didn't scream about would have been the reason why he was let go...)
He was forced out of MSNBC because of the changing of the Guard.
I can't speak about the other two networks because I was too young and don't know much about it.
Met a woman at my friend's party who worked with him at a different network than Current said he was the BEST Boss she ever had. Yeah, he may have been demanding on certain things BUT usually it had to do with giving the best the to his viewers.
This is the second time I heard things like that about this guy.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)But in order, ESPN, FOX, MSNBC and now Current...there s more to this than just the employer.
By the way that fine, outside of Fox, was not out of bounds. Many print media forbid reporters, editors etcetera from doing that.
More shocking, some really old school reporters are not even registered to vote, or for that matter vote.
Perhaps now knowing this explains to me why he was fined. MSNBC believes itself to be a news organization.
Now if you care to guess I signed my last petition four months ago. No, who I string does not require that, alas those are standards. He's been around the studio a little longer than I have, by a few decades. He shoud have known better.
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)on the freakin wrist.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)As I said, he should have known better.
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)mentioning it on air.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I am sorry if you really can't understand news organizations don't do that. He's been around the block a few decades. He shoud have known better. It has to do with the actual fairness in journalism I expect. Before you say it, morning Joe is not run by a journalist. How many times did Keith call himself one?
Sorry.
By the way many of us are very much done with Keith.
On the bright side, he should be fine economically.
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)I WILL CONTINUE TO STAND BY HIM!
So stop trying to make me change my mind!
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Just answering your questions.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)He's a partisan political commentator whose views are well known, so the standards for news people who are meant to appear to be neutral (although I'd like to know where these neutral news people are frankly) never applied to him or any other partisan political commentator.
I believe MSNBC acknowledged that and it was the reason why Joe could do it with no repercussions but once they tried to use it to suspend Keith, it was hard to explain away the different treatment of Joe.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Starting as a sports reporter.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)was not a reporter, or journalist. He was well-known as a Partisan Democrat and had no obligation to appear to be neutral. Even Republicans, who despise him, admitted that this was not something that could be used against him.
And MSNBC had to acknowledge he had every right to use his money as he saw fit. If he had been hired as a journalist his contract would have included something to prevent him from making donatins to a political party. But his did not, because it was not necessary.
I don't dump people who did as much as he did during the Bush years, one of the very few, easily. It seems there was more to what happened at Current than we know, and I will wait to learn more, whether they tried to restrict who he had on his show eg, which has been mentioned, and whether those people were from the 'left'.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)And Spitzer is boring.
Maybe those of us who went into journalism should never have bothered.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)When Current wrote in their pr statement they were using the same set.
As to boring, that's a matter of taste. I have been told the News Hour is boring too.
Perhaps you are right and should have staid out of journalism.
Personally, this is now in the courts, food fight. But I have the sneaky that a certain history will be relevant.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)it all of a sudden works?
I have no idea what the News Hour is.
My point about studying journalism is that assholes get the show and the real reporters are left to get low pay. Keith's major was Communications. So was mine.
History has nothing to do with contracts.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)News casts in the country. Check your local PBS station.
And in a civil lawsuit history does indeed matter when dealing with the third contract dispute.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)And spitzer is quite good. Granholm is quite frankly brilliant.
Nose, face and spite comes to mind.
FYI according to Steph ratings are actually up. I guess having a regular set of hosts tat do show matters.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)And, no, ratings aren't up.
Steph isn't boring, but us working folk never see her.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Do not under any circumstances tune in to the news hour. It won't be your cup of tea either.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)I don't have DVR, so I am switching back and forth.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)You can also podcast Rachel, this is what hubby does.
Zax2me
(2,515 posts)More than any other, actually.
KO was not the only show....
The documentaries are great.
Logical
(22,457 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)make it through the show before switching back to the Ed Show. I watched KO religiously when he was on MSNBC, though.
rurallib
(62,415 posts)yep - competiton with MSNBC is good for us.
ecstatic
(32,704 posts)to stop supporting one of the only liberal networks on TV? I feel guilty too for not having made time to watch any of the shows, but maybe if more people supported the channel, they'd have more to offer than just KO. One person can't carry a network.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)The station was NOTHING until KO started reporting on election fraud and liberals took notice.
Yeah, they had Phil Donohue, but he was fired before he could do anything.
It was Keith who made that network.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)now not so much. I will get around to trying out some of their new stuff, my watching time is prioritized this time of year, so Current is just not on my mind at all....
CobaltBlue
(1,122 posts)I am tuned in to Current TV for The Stephanie Miller Show. Sirius Left screws up the times. Her weekdays show on Current TV is live, beginning at 9 a.m. ET. (She is in California. So it is at 6 a.m. PT.)
I also tune in for The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur and The War Room with ex-Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm. Likewise Bill Press's radio show.
I do say that I don't do this every day. We're allowed some breathing room from political stuff.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)CurrentTV where I still watch him. I like Stephanie Miller in the morning. I listened to her on the radio but the radio signal was so bad that it's a pleasure to be able to listen or watch her static and buzz free on Current. I do watch the other shows as well, not as regularly as these two, but they are worthwhile. I miss KO too, but he's not there anymore, and I find there is no reason to cut myself off. It's not my fault he's off the air. I did my part to support him and wrote the management that I did.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Watch each when I'm able.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)I tuned in basically to watch Keith Olbermann, tried to support other shows to buttress the ratings of the station, but I no longer tune in. Current has a lot to learn with regard to public relations issues.
Sam
otohara
(24,135 posts)ever, never - he's perfect.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)otohara
(24,135 posts)or pick it - to save face.
Rooting for failure of Current is plain stupid.
I have more respect for the former Veep, vs the ticking time-bomb AKA KO
Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)Not interested in their programming now. If I start watching morning tv, I will watch Bill Press and Steph Miller.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)unc70
(6,113 posts)Have tried to keep an open mind, but he is just flat, boring, even when regarding a topic I care about.
Watch Ed, if anything at that hour. Down to just Rachel most evenings, even with DVR. Plus TDS and Colbert.
Listen to Stephanie on local radio and will continue.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)that is wholly owned by definitively unprogressive corporations while completely ignoring where all media is moving is simply incomprehensible to me.
Mid 20th century management style and 19th century rigidity are hallmarks of this anachronism.
It's really too bad, because they have an opportunity to create (and therefor dominate) the new media model. But just like the dunderheads that ran Air America, they are determined to fail, fighting a losing battle in a war that was over before they even came to be.
Does Al Gore have anything to do with the actual operations of this clusterfuck?
jillan
(39,451 posts)Jennifer Granholm's time slot - she up against Rachel and Rachel wins.
Yeah - I know she's on again later, but by then I've had enough politics.
Too bad, I like her.
BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)Stephanie and Cenk annoy the hell out of me- too much like the
"left" version of the crap on Fox for me. Constant yelling and outrage- no thanks.
I can get that on corporate news networks.
I enjoy the intelligent programming very much though.
Especially Spitzer, Granholm and the Vanguard series.
BHN
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)But then I don't watch a minute of politically driven television in the first place.
Boring.