At the end of tonight’s “Countdown,” Keith Olbermann announced that it would be his last show on MSNBC. One day after the merger between NBC and Comcast was approved. This is no coincidence! Brian Roberts, Comcast’s CEO, is a member of the conservative Business Roundtable and no doubt prioritized axing Olbermann as job one once he got his hands on MSNBC. I for one am sad to see how swiftly this occurred and hope that Olbermann finds a new home sooner than later.
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If Keith finds a home, it’s gonna be on the radio. At least in the short term. MSNBC will not allow Olbermann to be on TV so soon after departing the station.
Now we’ll see what he is made of.
Will he fight? Or will he fold.
Has he just been an actor playing a role?
We will see soon enough.
Watch.
AG
Oh Gilroy, you’re so strict, you destroy all dreams. If we don’t have our dreams and wishful thinking anymore, what do we have?
What do we have?
In this myth-challenged society?
Very damned little.
While we do have plenty of mythic material, its media-induced proliferation means that there are very few shared myths. Further, the survival-of-the-fittest button in the myth department has been totally turned off. In the past, only mythic messages that somehow worked to put a culture into (more or less of) a good survival position survived. Then the various cultural myths clashed…usually violently…and the most effective ones survived.
Now?
We’ve got the “Jersey Shores” myth and the “American Idol” myth and the “Fox News” myth and the “mainstream network/media news” myth and the “angry knuckleheads with a beatbox” myth and the “righteous Kos Kidsz” myth and so on and so forth, right on down the line. Not much content, but lots of choices.
And…the culture is failing.
As we speak.
It is failing.
Soft at the root.
It has given up its work ethic, outsourced it to other, hungrier (and more mythically aligned) cultures. About the only myth that unites us now is the “consumer” myth. That’s why George W. Butch took his (genetically programmed to be rapaciously greedy) dumb ass out onto TV the day after 9/11 and urged all Americans to go out and shop.
He pinned it.
How?
Why?
Because he and his handlers espoused only that myth. They had no others.
The “economic imperialism” myth…fight for what’s expensive.
Their “God?”
Like dat.
Shit.
Where’s Thomas Paine when you really need him?
Later…
AG
Well, the good news is that in three years we can begin to commemorate all the heroic events and deeds of WW One as a way of refreshing the souls and reaffirming the reslove of Europe and the US.