Meanwhile, Olbermann, who had been the first cable news host to cover the protests last month, all but ignored the massive breaking news story of Steve Jobs’ death and devoted almost his entire Current TV program to the protests.
“For the whole of the time that the Occupy Wall Street protesters have been making their case for a sea change in the way we Americans permit big business to draw and quarter and circumscribe our lives, media, too corrupt or too dense to understand anything more complicated than whether the blonde is missing or the verdict is guilty, have parroted ‘What do they want, what is their catchphrase?’” Olbermann said, before laying out their protesters list of complaints about corporate evils, beginning with the complaint that corporations “run our governments.”…
Behind Olbermann’s media critiques is a bit of rivalry with his former employer MSNBC, which a revamped Current TV is now competing directly against for progressive viewers at 8 p.m. Olbermann has lured several former MSNBC hosts to his new home, including Cenk Uygur and David Shuster and has been forthright about wanting to beat them.
Sarosi said he noted that although Schultz began his broadcast amid the protesters Wednesday night, he had to lead his show with Jobs’s death, a decision that was made across MSNBC’s prime-time lineup.
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