CN8 host Barry Nolan fired by Comcast for being a Bill O'Reilly critic
By John Amato Thursday May 22, 2008 11:50am
It was just a few weeks ago that Barry Nolan of CN8 in Boston thought it was a travesty that Bill O'Reilly was being honored at the local Emmy Awards. He was even going to invite Keith Olbermann to the gala event.
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I am appalled, just appalled,” Nolan told the Track. “He inflates and constantly mangles the truth . . . and his frequent target is the ‘left-leaning’ media - the ones who do report the news fairly. And those are the same people who will be sitting in the room honoring him.”…read on.
O'Reilly also attacks children that have been the victims of pedophiles also---which got him kicked out of a speaking engagement in Naples, Florida for The National Center for Missing Kids. But hey, C&Lers knew that already. Well, it looks like Barry got fired from his job at CN8 for taking his outrage to the next level. (h/t Robert)
"Their take is that I was insubordinate," Nolan told us yesterday. "They wanted me to sit down and shut up." The host of "Backstage With Barry Nolan" had argued that O'Reilly, the volatile Fox News host and former Channel 7 anchor, was unworthy of the Governor's Award. (Past recipients include the likes of Mike Wallace, Ken Burns, and Natalie Jacobson.) "The idea of honoring someone who does their job with constant factual errors, name-calling, and mangling of the truth . . . It's ridiculous," said Nolan
We're told Nolan was warned by his bosses at CN8 to pipe down, but at the May 10 dinner honoring O'Reilly he handed out a six-page document listing some of O'Reilly's wackier errors, utterances, and information about the talk-show host's sexual harassment settlement. Seems Comcast was concerned that Nolan's actions could harm the network's relationships with the academy and Fox. He was immediately suspended without pay for two weeks and then fired over the phone Tuesday. CN8 spokeswoman Beth Bacha wouldn't say much yesterday, but she did confirm that Nolan is "no longer employed" by Comcast.
I wonder if Murdoch's threats to NBC and GE over KO's treatment of BillO has been extended to all that would be critics of The Factor man.
On the surface, O'Reilly's charges revolve around GE's history of doing business with Iran. But the attacks grow out of an increasingly bitter feud between O'Reilly and the company's high-profile subsidiary, NBC, one that has triggered back-channel discussions involving News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, NBC chief executive Jeff Zucker and General Electric's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt.
Ailes called Zucker on his cellphone last summer, clearly agitated over a slam against him by MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. According to sources familiar with the conversation, Ailes warned that if Olbermann didn't stop such attacks against Fox, he would unleash O'Reilly against NBC and would use the New York Post as well.
Both Fox and the Post are owned by Murdoch, who complained about Olbermann's conduct in separate calls to Zucker and Immelt.
The high-level appeals failed, and O'Reilly has escalated his criticism of GE in recent weeks, declaring, "If my child were killed in Iraq, I would blame the likes of Jeffrey Immelt."...read on
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Great article!
Psst - (whispering, politely) there are a few typos. Not that we are picky like that, it's just that...maybe we are picky a little.
they have every right to fire him if they said stfu
i know oreilly is bad news, we all do...so if your a C&Ler from bahstan, boycott, write letters, etc
"If my child"...yeah, Bill, like your offspring would ever serve in Iraq.
O'Racist is a long track record of supporting pedophiles. In fact, he'd rather support pedophiles then support NBC's successful campaign that is responsible for exposing pedophiles leading to their arrest and conviction. How disgusting but expected for the reich-wing.
Gee, if the shoe were on the other foot, we'd have an avalanche of righties organizing protests in the name of "free speech"....
Controversy
Like other local cable networks in the United States, CN8 is not available on satellite systems, particularly DirecTV and Dish Network. CN8, along with similar networks like NY1 and News 12, was created to add value to cable networks over satellite systems.
The area where this decision raises the most controversy is with sports. Lawmakers have put pressure on Comcast to make the sports contents that they cover, particularly on sister network CSN Philadelphia, available to satellite operators. CN8 is not available on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, which covers many sporting events, because their internal cable system is satellite based.
Another controversy took place when CN8 expanded to New England. At the time, Comcast had a studio in Brookline, Massachusetts that was shared by the company for local-origination programming, and Brookline Access Television (BAT), the local public-access cable channel in that town. BAT was kicked out of that studio, and it resulted in Comcast getting bad publicity in a local newspaper. Eventually, BAT built its own separate studio elsewhere in the town while the former studio shared by Comcast and BAT is now used full-time by CN8, the major (but not the only) studio facility used by CN8 in New England.
In September of 2007, CN8 was fined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for allegedly airing multiple video news releases (VNRs) without disclosure. The FCC proposed $16,000 in fines for not-disclosing the use of footage from several companies, all airing in fall 2006. It was the FCC’s first-ever fine for violating the sponsorship-identification rules. Complaints had been lodged by the Center for Media and Democracy and Free Press, among others.
Perhaps he'll get a job at NBC. If they hire him quickly, he can do KO's worst person spot about his own story.
[Deleted. Flame bait. Bob, does your boss know you're posting hate screeds on blog sites from his/her IP addy? You should be careful about that-Sitemonitor]
Your corporate-owned media at work...
bob @ 8:
Defending pedophiles is getting the last word? Sick.
bob @ 8:
I'm sure you and Bill know all about being consumed with hate.
Bostonites (Bostonians?) should deluge the station with irate phone calls - just like the wing-nuts would do. How do you think they attained such a position of influence - the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
"I am appalled, just appalled,” Nolan told the Track. “He inflates and constantly mangles the truth . . . and his frequent target is the ‘left-leaning’ media - the ones who do report the news fairly. And those are the same people who will be sitting in the room honoring him.”…
Um, it's called a symbiotic relationship - like the green algae that lives inside corral and helps it make its food. They live off of each other and the protein parts (the 'left-leaning' media) cannot live without the green slime parts (BO) producing that which gives them their sustenance. Just my 2 centavos. (:>
bob @ 8:
O'Racist your hero? Talk about low self esteem.
It's time to put the full-court press on BillO.
I can feel that his head is just about ready to explode.
People .... Please don't feed the Troll.
herr dubyah claims Jebus is his hero
herr dubyah's followers claim O'Racist is their hero. Talk about falling short.
bob @ 8:
All My Heroes Are
CowboysDemented, too...can't find an email address for theose #$%^&*
two points
Billo finally developing a Mathews style sense of ethics !!!!!!
Does this count as treason during war time and can we finally see the various parts of the US MIC in court answering charges of why they actively support the 'enemy' ?
I wonder if Andrea Mackris can legally discuess here experiences working with BillO prior to the events that lead to the lawsuit? It would be fun to get that story circulating again.
this proves my theory that all awards are worthless
Is this the same Barry Nolan formerly of "Hard Copy"? If so, then let the war of the ex-4pm-tabloid-show-hosts commence!
Get ready for president McCain!!! The military industrial complex will never allow a populist president. If one were to be elected, he would be eliminated.
dw @ 22:
WORD !
bob @ 8:
I was going to comment, but you and he aren't worth it.
From about.com
Shortly after Devlin kidnapped Hornbeck, back in 2002, he planned to kill the boy after repeatedly sexually assaulting him. He took Shawn back to Washington County in his pickup truck, he pulled him from the truck and began to strangle him.
Deal With the Devil
"I attempted to kill (Shawn) and he talked me out of it," Devlin said. He stopped choking the boy and sexually assaulted him again. In what prosecutors called a "deal with the devil" Shawn told Devlin at that time that he would do whatever Devlin wanted him to do to stay alive.
"We know now the details that made him not run away," said Shawn's stepfather, Craig Akers.
Over the years, Devlin used many methods to control Shawn. The details of the abuse Shawn endured are so horrific and graphic it was not released by most media outlets, although the reports were readily available. Devlin admitted to making pornographic photographs and videotapes of Shawn and taking him across state lines to engage in sex acts.
To continue to control Shawn, Devlin took him with him when he abducted Ben Ownby in January 2007, telling Shawn that because he was in the truck he was an accomplice to the crime.""
Not info Bill O made his own viewers aware of I suspect....the man is lower than scum
The award they gave O'Reilly was the "Goebbels" for being such a strident supporter of fascist propaganda. His blittzkreig of any media except for Murdoch's and Moon's is legend.
Rumor has it that Bill showed up thinking he was going to receive a "Gerbil" for bizzare kinkiness, and not the "Goebbels" that he gladly accepted in its place. Apparently the Swastika shaped prize will be used by Bill to hang his coat on next time he goes off on an expletive laced tirade.
Curiously, I came home last night and found a solicitation from the local Comcast in my mailbox! I folded it up, typed out the following letter and sent it back to them with instructions never to befoul my mailbox again.
Let's send a message, and all do the same, please:
I think bill o'really is a few salamis away from being a hero.
Plenty of baloney though.
ummm, spellcheck anyone??
Bill can put it next to his award he got from NAMBLA for blaming the kid instead of the pedophile .
...at the May 10 dinner honoring O’Reilly he handed out a six-page document listing some of O’Reilly’s wackier errors, utterances, and information about the talk-show host’s sexual harassment settlement.
Wow, that is some ballsy warfare! Good on him! I hope the Universe honors his efforts and makes sure he lands on his feet.
clytemnestra @ 26:
Definitely. Ignore it. It is just looking for a fight.
Olbermann's "conduct"?
You mean being truthful? Incisive? Courageous? Cogent and intelligent and eloquent? Things that O'Lielly certifiably is not?
Poor widdle Roger Ailes can't handle it.
Oh, and Bob, your stupidity is showing.
The only true Bob:
http://www.thewag.net/graphics/bob.jpg
Funny thing about right wing trolls...their own websites suck so bad, they have to come to liberal ones to bitch. Take a powder, Bob, and go over to Doush Limbaugh's site and tell him how "right" and what a "patriot" he is! One of his $6.00 an hour interns will read it because he's too busy smoking $100 a pop Cuban cigars and sipping $1,000.00 a bottle cognac while nitwits like you suck on cancerous generic cigarettes and swig Mountain Dew as you waste your afternoon telling the load how swell he is! LOL!
Don @ 5:
We'd be limping
Not knowing our right foot from our left foot
Kinda like repugs.
It sounds attacking to say bill is defending the pedophiles, but seriously, what else could he possibly think/say he's doing here? Sure, criticize the victims, but to what end? Can't even fathom what could be the angle here...
Gosh, it's almost as if the mainstream media were merely a tool of corporate propaganda, devoid of any journalistic standards or ethics of conduct. At least Nolan only got fired. A couple more years of neocon rule, and and upstarts like him will start to mysteriously disappear...
Darth_Romney @ 37:
Plus, liberal blogs allow freedom of speech. Write a polite but dissenting comment on a conservative blog and they not only delete your comment, but they then ban you forever.
Barry Nolan should sue. How could any reasonable jury think doing something that he was told not to do was insubordination? What a bogus charge. That's just whack.
May be should boycott the emmies
Oh wait,
Does anybody watch the emmies anymore?
ysbaddaden @ 36:
looks like the guy from "The Church of Bob"
My rightwing brother LOVES billo. He's so hypnotized that he really thinks everything O'Reilly says is a fact. Makes for interesting family get-togethers, because for some reason, my brother hasn't yet learned how easy it is to tear apart his fabricated "news" with facts, research, and common sense. Maybe, like O'Reilly, he just likes embarrassing himself in front of groups of people.
dennis @ 42:
This may be difficult for you to understand, but not everyone acts out of greed and selfishness - some people act out of principle.
Now back to your regularly scheduled drivel..
Maybe they should get Barry Nolan to replace that professional airhead, aging, bimbo Katie couric.
Blue Lensman @ 46:
This may be even more difficult for you to understand, but not everyone sues out of greed and selfishness - some people sues out of principle (as well as stopping corporations from breaking the discrimination laws that we have in America).
ysbaddaden @ 43:
Don @ 5:
Can we boycot Fox?
Oh wait, we already do!
LOL
Seriously, is there a way to do an email campaign in protest?
Not that it would do any good... still.
OT
In other news.
Help.
I can't find this story:
Anatomy of a Right Wing Myth III-Hannity calls Obama #1 Liberal Senator
Getting message "not found." anyone?
what's your point?
The free speech issue is about the firing, not billo
Dr. (Bitter Hussein) Matt @ 10:
Perhaps he is a pedophile? I can't really imagine anyone else defending that sort of behavior.
Blue Lensman @ 46:
He acted out of pettiness and jealousy and the liberal obsession with Bill O'Rielly that compelled him to think he'd be marytred for his actions. Obviously a calculation he could bank on.
That and CN8 sucks and he probably preferred going out like Howard Beale anyway, a dream he's no doubt had since childhood.
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ @ 37:
http://www.subgenius.com/
dw @ 22:
Winner of the "Worthless Theory Award For Guest Commentary on the 9:50 AM C&L Post"!! Congrats!!
(Don't spend it all in one place...)
(kidding)
;-}
how surprised am i? not one tiny little bit.
the head guy at comcast is on the board of c-span.
comcast does not include c-span as part of its "broadcast basic" package. you can't have c-span from comcast unless you get the next level of service up, which costs in the neighborhood of $45-$50/month (broadcast basic is around $10/month).
i was just googling to see if i could find the guy's name and actual title (i didn't) but i did come across a post from december 8, 2007 where the person reports that two weeks or so earlier comcast had dropped c-span2 from their channels. the email response from comcasta to his inquiry reads as follows:
"I apologize, C-Span 2 was moved to allow us to expand our Digital line-up. This change was made by both Comcast and C-Span 2. If this doesn’t resolve your issue to your satisfaction, please reply to this email for further assistance."
he sent a follow-up requesting clarification and had not heard back as of the post.
like i said, i'm not surprised they fired barry nolan.
comcast makes a little bit of vomit come up in the back of my throat.
As a former employee of Comcast, I'm here to tell you that it is an evil, evil company.
dennis @ 50:
"Liberal obsession"? Gotta look THAT one up.
Bridget Jones @ 45:
As Billo used to say "funk it, we'll do it live" then they turned the camera off on him.
ysbaddaden @ 51:
We are of one mind.
dennis @ 43:
...says The No Menace, out of pettiness and jealousy and its contardian contrarian obsession with getting progressives riled up that compels it to be smacked around on C&L. Obviously a calculation to get attention and piss off non-contards here that often supports its delusion of superiority by its apparent ability to manipulate them into predictable responses...
That and being a contard reallly sucks and blows, so annoying progressives is a necessary catharsis that helps keep its nightmares to a minimum.
Sorry, No Menace, that's all the time I have for you today...get well soon ;-}
Hittin’ the road, Jack,”and I ain’t comin’ back no more no more no more no more”…
“Last word, freak.” - Melvin Udall
out
;-}
FUCK comcast... I'm sick of their shit too..... Crappiest cable packages I've ever seen.... Thanks Murdock or whoever the fuck owns them... I barely talerate them as is, and when they go digital next fall or whenever.. That's when they stop seeing money from me.................Assholes!!! They ought to have their license revolked for improper censorship over this.. Of course that would require an FCC that wasn't itself a pack of gutless Bush appeasers.... JD
That's it. I was never happy with Comcast but this is the last straw. Verizon has cable now too, I'm calling them.
58 Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Lee Whitenbitter Says:
“Last word, freak.” - Melvin Udall
out
;-}
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo9bKdIG_Yw
That fact that Fox has enough influence to get this guy fired in the first place is what we should REALLY be concerned with.
Something does not smell right.
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ @ 57:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4toKhhyVM9Q&feature=related
It seems like every side is going to declare themselves the winner in this one. Bill O'Reilly will get +8 to Smarm and probably +3 to Dexterity, Nolan summons Righteous Indignation and gets +4 to Employability, while Comcast casts Censorship with a +5 modifier to Prostitution. Comcast suffers -7 to Public Image and loses a turn.
Here's a little Comcast info relating to CEO Brian Roberts (from the Comcast website):
Mr. Roberts is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) where he served as chairman for two consecutive terms from 2005-2007. He also served as NCTA’s chairman from 1995-1996 when the landmark deregulatory 1996 Telecommunications Act became law. ...
Mr. Roberts co-chaired the 2003 Resource Development Campaign for the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania and was a founding co-chair of Philadelphia 2000, the nonpartisan host committee for the 2000 Republican National Convention.
That's what the lying Reslugs do when someone honestly points out proof of Faux's daily fabrications and outright lies.
ysbaddaden @ 36:
:lol:
comcast - a corporate tentacle of the reich wing.
O'Reilly once won a Polk Award. Way to go killing any ounce of pride once felt by a Polk Award recipient. And we all know the value of the Presidential Medal of Freedom - about as much value as a whistle in box of Cracker Jack. Emmy Awards don't really matter, but now getting one is practically an insult.
I propose an annual Falafel Award, given to a cowardly media big mouth for bringing shame and scorn on the news media beyond the usual heaps of shame and scorn they face every day.
If memory serves me...weren't Barry Nolan and Bill O'Reilly both employees of the Current Affair show. I'm pretty sure that Barry Nolan, if not on Current Affair, was the Anchor of Inside Edition or something similar.
In other words, could this be a long standing issue. (maybe Mr. Nolan has a few more scruples, etc.)
Is there any doubt?
beckyboo @ 70:
you really didn't mean maybe, did you?
raker @ 69:
The Show he USED to be on won the award, he was long gone by then.
princess @ 50:
"That and CN8 sucks"?!!?!. LOL ROFL!!!!
princess: YOU stink, you poopy stupid dummy head jerk, CN8!
Speaking of obsessions...the reich-wing o'racist list of obsessions continues to grow daily: NBC, GE, Rosie, Ellen, MSNBC, Matthews, Edwards, NYT, Vermont, Denver, San Fran, MMFA, TP, Dkos, Huff Po, Nazis, Paris, the French, etc., etc.,
Princess continues to get her arse handed to her......
I switch from Comcast to Verizon. The lesser of 2 evil!
dennis @ 42:
Conversely, since Mr O'reilly has not been fired his outright mendacities, distortions, obfuscations and general mean spiritedness these things must have the blessing of Fox management. No insubordination from Bill right?
it truly saddens me that someone was fired for doing what we asked of him. Isn't there anything we can do at this time.
The fact of the matter is that O'Reilly is a p*ssy who can't handle it that Olbermann levels criticism at him. So O'Reilly goes crying like big, bawling baby to the News Corp guys begging them to make Olbermann stop it. Waaah!
This whole thing started because Olbermann poked fun at O'Reilly for his sexual piccadillos, his not knowing the diff between loofahs & falafels and, worst of all, that O'Reilly, who holds himself up as a "traditional values warrior", broke the law with his harassment of a subordinate employee. O'Reilly acts like a tough guy when in reality he's a journalistic hack with a fragile ego and morals that exclude him from being a so-called T-warrior.
"The Black Eagle" Joe Madison of the national black talk radio network XM 169/THE POWER barbecued O'Reilly on his radio show when O'Reilly attacked him on his TV show 3-4 weeks ago. Maybe it was 5 weeks ago.
I suppose O'Reilly is calling Radio One [Radio One owns THE POWER] demanding that Joe Madison be fired for responding to his attacks on him, too.
So much for freedom of speech. I guess we can expect O'Reilly to complain (or give a loony rant in O'Reilly's case) about this guy being shut up by the PTB? /sarcasm
Contact Comcast to complain. Please. This guy needs our support.
http://www.cn8.tv/feedback/contactus.asp?bFormData=1&lChannelID=604
Barry had the big spine, Bill had the big mouth. Barry is a hero. Someone in media needs to speak the truth.
Honoring Bill O'R?????????? Did he pay for that? He can put that next to his Peabody.
F*%K Scamcast.
The fact that O'Reilly continues to breathe is the biggest injustice
"Barry Nolan should sue. How could any reasonable jury think doing something that he was told not to do was insubordination? What a bogus charge. That’s just whack."
Don't count on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZkDikRLQrw
I am not surprised one bit. Comcast is trying to create its own little Fox News with their pathetic CN8 network that they CONSTANTLY advertise for every 5 seconds on my cable.
I think I might actually get rid of my cable now and just get FiOs. Can't those morons at Comcast understand they are in the cable business, not the media business? It seems like every tinpot CEO wants to be Rupert Murdoch.
one that has triggered back-channel discussions involving News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, NBC chief executive Jeff Zucker and General Electric’s CEO, Jeffrey Immelt.