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CN 8 fires Barry Nolan (had criticized Bill O'Reilly)

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File under, "You're fired! What say you?"

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2008/05/22/tmz_tyler_in_rehab_center/

Barry Nolan has been fired by Comcast's CN 8. He was critical of Bill O'Reilly receiving a
"Governor's Award" from the Boston chapter of National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Nolan had said, "The idea of honoring someone who does their job with constant factual errors, name-calling, and mangling of the truth . . . It's ridiculous."
 
We're told Nolan was warned by his bosses at CN8 to pipe down, but at the May 10 dinner honoring O'Reilly he handed out a six-page document listing some of O'Reilly's wackier errors, utterances, and information about the talk-show host's sexual harassment settlement... He was immediately suspended without pay for two weeks and then fired over the phone Tuesday...
Over the phone? Yikes. They didn't even have the decency to "do it live"... ;)
 
Both have anchored in Boston. Nolan was on "Hard Copy" during the time O'Reilly was on "Inside Edition."
I'm guessing this something personal. It's also stupid. I've been part of groups that honored people I didn't particularly like but I didn't go on a tear about it.
 
Speaking of which, Keith Olbermann mentioned Comcast on his World's Worst Persons segment a few days ago for this. (Of course, he has an ongoing feud with O'Reilly...)
 
Nolan did more than just criticize Bill O'Reilly. He wrote to all the Governors of the local Emmy Awards and protested giving him an award. And he set up a table in the lobby of the event to protest and talked to other media about it.

If you don't like someone getting an award, writing a letter of protest is one thing. Crashing the event or taking it to other media is something else.

My guess is that Nolan and O'Reilly probably had some sort of falling out when they were direct competitors on Hard Copy and Inside Edition.

Nolan should have written his letters and stayed away from the event if he had a problem. He went too far and Comcast likely felt it reflected poorly on the company.
 
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