There’s a story on this on the NY Times web site and it says MSNBC essentially used olbermann as a sacrificial lamb in it’s plan to show MSNBC is different from FNC because they won’t allow contributions as FNC does. I think that while that is probably true, I know Keith and if he returns to the air on MSNBC, he will become even more hardened in his position and likely FORCE them to fire him eventually.

I can’t do a link to the NYT story, but the column is called “Media Decoder.”