After years of being away from hosting that daily, national discussion, Donahue returned to TV in 2002 as the host of a nightly debate-style program on MSNBC. For many people, the show was a much-needed breath of fresh air on the cable networks, increasingly dominated by right-wing pundits and media personalities. Antiwar voices long kept off these cable news channels were suddenly given a seat in the forbidden studios to take part in a national debate about the so-called war on terror.

Donahue was on in the same time slot as Fox’s Bill O"Reilly. But the show didn’t last long. In fact, it didn’t even last a year, even though it was MSNBC"s top-rated program. When Donahue was fired, the network moved to hire a string of right-wing hosts.

...DN!
I loved him. Replaced by... crap. How? Who owns the media in America?

The advertisers.

The advertisers.

It's not only the advertisers in a case like this I think.

There is more than financial greed in the world.

There is political greed and lack of ethics as well!

I heard this story at the time or sometime ago (can't keep extact track of time unfortunately) and was not aware of it making more than a tiny blip of unheard noise unfortunately.

I remember I switched my main news station because it was the least gung ho war inciter, but since that time all thenetworks have gone firmly into the government's pocket!

He could just go to YouTube. Start his own network on the internet. That's a good place to voice independent thinking. No wait. What's that I hear? Comcast and other feds twiddling with the lawbooks to take away internet freedom.

"you don't know what you've got till it's gone..."
Soon the real voices of change will have to go back to placards and signs in the street. That is until pen and paper is outlawed or regulated by some self serving corporation.

Communism or Dictatorship?

Is there really any difference?

Same shit
Different toilet.

I second all the above. Something very wrong going on with this so called system. $$$ seems to dictate and control all.