Current Events

How's this for media gossip. Today NYT's Brian Stelter got the scoop that Current TV - famous for hiring, bickering with, firing and being sued by Keith Olbermann - has been bought by Al Jazeera, which means Elliot Spitzer, Jennifer Granholm and the other lefty pundits will be dropped too:

Al Jazeera plans to shut Current and start an English-language channel, which will be available in more than 40 million homes, with newscasts emanating from both New York and Doha, Qatar.

Time Warner Cable responded to this news by dropping Current TV, and right-wingers on Twitter started an Islamophobic hashtag game about new show ideas like "Stoned in Afghanistan" and "Arabia's Funniest Home Beheadings."

And now it turns out that Glenn Beck tried to purchase Current himself last year but was rejected because he's "not aligned to [their] point of view".

Remember when that scrappy documentary series "Vanguard" was doing award-winning exposés on organised crime and Olbermann was going to single-handedly save journalism from corporate interference? Where did it all go wrong, you guys? (About five minutes after KO signed on, yes, I know.)