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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Suspended liberal anchor Keith Olbermann will return to the MSNBC lineup on Tuesday, four days after the cable news network suspended him for giving money to three Democratic politicians.
MSNBC said in a statement on Sunday...
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Co-host Keith Olbermann answers questions during the panel for ''NBC Sunday Night Football'' at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills, California July 16, 2007.
Credit: Reuters/Phil McCarten
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Mon Nov 8, 2010 8:28am EST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Suspended liberal anchor Keith Olbermann will return to the MSNBC lineup on Tuesday, four days after the cable news network suspended him for giving money to three Democratic politicians.
MSNBC said in a statement on Sunday that Olbermann had been punished enough off for violating parent company NBC News' policy against making such donations without prior approval.
"After several days of deliberation and discussion, I have determined that suspending Keith through and including Monday night's program is an appropriate punishment for his violation of our policy. We look forward to having him back on the air Tuesday night," MSNBC president Phil Griffin said.
The controversy arose when Olbermann revealed to the website Politico that he had contributed $2,400 each to Jack Conway, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, and to two members of the House of Representatives from Arizona, Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords.
Olbermann is clearly a liberal partisan on his show "Countdown With Keith Olbermann," in which he often takes issue with comments made by conservative media figures such as radio host Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly of Fox News -- often by attempting to imitate their voices while reading back their own words.
But he evidently was subject to the same ethics standards that apply to NBC News journalists, and MSNBC suspended him indefinitely without pay on Friday.
In the November 2 elections, Conway lost to Rand Paul, a Republican backed by the conservative Tea Party movement. Grijalva and Giffords won their tight races. Grijalva said in a statement on Friday that MSNBC had "overreacted," and that Olbermann had made his contributions as a private citizen.
Olbermann has helped make MSNBC something of a liberal alternative to Fox News, which is decidedly conservative, and MSNBC has featured the former sports anchor in promos.
Olbermann had criticized Fox News' parent company, News Corp, for donating $1 million to the Republican Governors Association.
NBC News policy says an employee taking part in political activity such as campaign donations "may find that these activities jeopardize his or her standing as an impartial journalist," according to a 2007 story on MSNBC.com.
MSNBC and NBC News are part of NBC Universal.
Comcast Corp is in the process of buying a majority stake in NBC Universal from General Electric Co, which would give it control of the NBC TV network.
(Reporting by Daniel Trotta; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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Nov 08, 2010 7:52am EST
The 300,000 signatures over the weekend from an online petition sent to the president of MSNBC to reinstate him might have had something to do with it.
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Nov 08, 2010 8:53am EST
NBC News policy says an employee taking part in political activity such as campaign donations “may find that these activities jeopardize his or her standing as an impartial journalist,” according to a 2007 story on MSNBC.com.
Like Phil Griffin was laboring under the illusion that Keith was an ‘impartial journalist’. What a crock. He probably isn’t quite sure which party Obama is in, either.
Additionally, Keith probably could sue NBC because, a person can’t be held liable for or participate in an agreement in which they are deprived of their rights – even if they agree. That’s pretty basic contract law.
Man Up, Phil………
Joe200011
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Nov 08, 2010 9:37am EST
This NBC News Policy is hillarious:
“may find that these activities jeopardize his or her standing as an impartial journalist,”.
I wonder how impartial an entire news agency is that contributes a million dollars to a Repbulican campaigner? If they hold their “journalists” accountable for such actions, shouldn’t they then hold themselves accountable for giving a million dollars to the party that is tearing our country up? That is out and out Gestapo tactics as far as I’m concerned and we should rally against the corporate machine and against any such BS as Americans that attempt to tear our freedoms down (see: The Patriot Act).
MarkoGA
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Nov 08, 2010 10:22am EST
MSNBC and General Electric give journalism a bad name. The trash that this guy spews out is a disgrace.
PrincipeReale
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Nov 08, 2010 10:51am EST
Who gives journalism a good name? Karl Rove and fox news? How about Sean Hannity and Joe Scarborough?
http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2010/11/report_sean_hannity_and_joe_sc.html
Or how about that big rally Glenn Beck took part in with Sara Palin and the tea gang? It is all a joke.
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