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Olbermann Blame Game to Serve Push for Regulation on Speech, the Internet

Sam Karnick, one of the most perceptive writers and thinkers in the free-market movement, has some interesting things to say about the recent kerfuffle over Keef Uberegoman at the Infotech & Telecom News. A sample:

Olbermann gave no specific reason for his decision to leave MSNBC at this time. The blogosphere, however, immediately lit up with posts blaming cable giant Comcast, which is planning to merge with MSNBC parent corporation NBC/Universal in a matter of days. Comcast issued a statement noting that it does not yet own NBCU and that it had “pledged from the day the deal was announced that we would not interfere with NBC Universal’s news operations. We have not and we will not.”

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Bruce Edward Walker is managing editor of InfoTech & Telecom News. Prior to joining Heartland in 2010, Bruce worked at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy as science editor of the quarterly magazine MichiganScience and communications manager for the center’s Property Rights Network. In the latter position, Bruce won a Communicators Award of Distinction from the International Academy of the Visual Arts for a video he wrote, narrated, and produced, Boardman River Dams, Episode 1: Drawdown and Devastation in Grand Traverse County.