Mass Media In 'Lock Down' / Oberman on Vacation???

November 15, 2004

Original post was: Mass Media In 'Lock Down' Not To Cover Vote Fraud

Not sure what to make of this...I did a search for Oberman and went

to the MSNBC link and found this article, supposedly written by

Oberman saying his " firing " is a bogus conspiracy theory. Makes me

wonder if this is just a saving face cover-up from MSNBC. Oberman

claims he is on " vacation " and is blogging in the interim. Does

anybody really know what's the deal here? Here's the first part of

the article and the link so you can read the whole thing. -Kat

November 14, 2004 | 3:05 p.m. ET

I swear: I'm on vacation (Keith Olbermann)

SECURE UNDISCLOSED LOCATION - Golly, I've never been the subject of a

conspiracy theory before.

Yet, there it is, flying around the internet under the byline of a

Peter Coyote: that when I attempted to break the " lock-down " of

coverage of the voting irregularities story in the media during

Friday night's edition of Countdown, I was fired, and left the studio

in the middle of the program.

Um, no, actually.

I'm on vacation - it's been scheduled since August; I'll be blogging

in the interim; Countdown will continue to cover the story in my

absence; I not only wasn't fired for `mentioning' the story - but we

covered it five nights in a row; and, I'll be back on television on

the 22nd (earlier, if developments warrant).

But we can now trace how just a dollop of the truth can be subverted

into an item available for purchase in the Tin Foil Hat District -

and we have another reminder that what you read on the web, no matter

how much it might fit your beliefs, anxieties, or even other facts,

might still resemble more a game of telephone than actual

investigative reporting.

On Vaco but still reading your emails. Write to me at

KOlbermann

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