Boston Journalist Fired by Comcast for Protesting Local Emmy Award for O’Reilly…

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CN8 has fired veteran TV journalist Barry Nolan for publicly protesting the decision by the local Emmy Awards to honor Fox News blowhard Bill O’Reilly.

Nolan tells MediaBiz he was fired Tuesday following a two-week, unpaid suspension.

More at Boston Herald (Hat-tip RAW STORY.)

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  1. 1)
    socrates said on 5/23/2008 @ 5:14pm PT: [Permalink]

    Barry Nolan used to work in Boston. He’s a good guy.

    Bill’s O’Reilly: The Ugly American
    {excerpt}

    That is it today… all right, I don’t know what, whatever it is it’s not right on the teleprompter. I don’t know what that is…..

    I CAN’T READ IT. THERE’S NO WORDS ON IT. THERE’S NO WORDS THERE. TO PLAY US OUT. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, TO PLAY US OUT? ……

    @^!&#%*^&%@#!&&^(#

    WE’LL DO IT LIVE

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    Dredd said on 5/24/2008 @ 3:27am PT: [Permalink]

    Free english lesson for Billy Zero:

    After you announce that String is going to play a song, and you have that much time left on the show for the day, ‘to play us out’ means that the last part of the show today will be Sting and that band will play to the end of the show.

    Are you as smart as a fifth grader? Barry Nolan, get a job with people smarter than a fifth grader … if there are any in the MSM.

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    Nunyabiz said on 5/24/2008 @ 5:24am PT: [Permalink]

    What I don’t understand is why 1000s of newscasters don’t just all make a pact and start telling it like it is.
    The Media corps cant fire them all.

    Of course same goes for the rest of “We the People” why don’t 10s of Millions of us start marching on Washington?
    What is it going to take?

    What will be the final straw?

    $8 gal gas?
    Detainment (death) camps?

  4. 4)
    Dredd said on 5/24/2008 @ 9:49am PT: [Permalink]

    Nunyabiz #3

    $8 gal gas …Detainment (death) camps

    Hard to say which will come first:

    To justify holding him, the government claimed a broad interpretation of the president’s wartime powers, one that goes beyond warrantless wiretapping or monitoring banking transactions. Government lawyers told federal judges that the president can send the military into any U.S. neighborhood, capture a citizen and hold him in prison without charge, indefinitely.

    There is little middle ground between the two sides in al-Marri’s case, which is before a federal appeals court in Virginia. The government says the president needs this power to keep the nation safe. Al-Marri’s lawyers say that as long as the president can detain anyone he wants, nobody is safe.

    (Yahoo! News). Preznit blush and McFeigh think we are all turrisstss so who knows.

  5. 5)
    Nunyabiz said on 5/25/2008 @ 6:28am PT: [Permalink]

    That article you linked is exactly why 9/11 truth is absolutely mandatory to come out and be fully & Independently investigated.
    The Laws of Physics do not lie, however Bush and his minions lie continuously.

    9/11 truth is the key to saving this country.

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    72dawg said on 5/27/2008 @ 8:51am PT: [Permalink]

    Barry Nolan had two strikes against him, apparently:
    1. He is not the corporation’s man
    2. He does not make them millions

    O’Reilly spouts what he is supposed to spout, plus he adds a lot of “entertainment” value. I suspect those outbursts are planned: if A happens then B results. It is improv theatre.

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