Why the Internet is better than Cable News.

I guess one reason is that I can have MSNBC on for several hours Saturday morning and only find out on the Internets that Friday night was Keith Olbermann's last show. Sounds hostile and not totally unexpected even though MSNBC still has the most liberal lineup in the history of the cable news universe. I wrote this in a quick response to Micah Wright, who wrote this:

Comcast draws its first blood. Keith Olbermann has just gone off the air. I guess this means that MSNBC is just about to make a hard turn to the right-wing so they can chase Fox News' money. Thanks, Obama! Thanks for letting another massive cable merger go through! Yet another progressive voice silenced. I wonder how long Maddow will be drawing breath?

And I wrote this:

Actually, so far, that doesn't seem to be true. Keep in mind that Cenk Uygar of the Young Turks now takes over the 6 pm slot. Laurence O Donnell takes over Keith's slot, an admitted loss as Laurence is a treachly limp wristed liberal who st...ands for nothing. Just right for corporate media. Rachel Maddow is still there. And Ed Schultz takes over the 10:00 slot over DLC Larry, which is an improvement. Now, if something "bad" were to happen to Dylan Ratigan, Rachel, Ed and Cenk, who is only temporary...Then, yeah, evil corporate media where the Left is Joe Lieberman and the right is Jim DeMint has prevailed again...

I do think there's a very good chance that the latter will happen, as I predicted here:

http://mirroruniverse.blogspot.com/2010/11/dont-be-surprised-if-entirety-of-msnbcs.html

Still think that the Internet, a good Internet where net neutrality is enforced, is Keith's best bet...Amy Goodman runs Democracy Now on less than a million a year...