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Rally to Restore Sanity


Brian

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Keith Olbermann sort of chastised Stewart for including him in his rants, but then came back and "Suspended" his "Worst person in the world" segment, saying:

The overall message that the tone needs to change, was not lost on any of us. The anger in this news hour was not an original part of it, nor was it an artifice we added to it. It was a response to a threat to this democracy posed by Mr. Bush and now by his lineal descendants. The anger happened, it will still happen, it is not for ratings and it is not 'get angry first and find a reason later.'

 

But there is an institutionalization of it that may no longer be valid. That is the 'Worse Persons in the World' Segment. Which started, of all things, as a way of defending Tucker Carlson. Its satire and whimsy have gradually gotten lost in some anger, so in the spirit of the thing, as of right now, I am unilaterally suspending that segment with an eye towards discontinuing it. We don't know how that works long term. We might bring it back. We might bring back something similar to it, might kill it outright, and next week we will solicit your input.

 

Its just that today, given the serious stuff we have to start covering tomorrow, we think its the right thing to do short term and then we will see what happens. And we'll also see if anyone else, on tv, or radio, will do something similar.

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