NBC exec: Give us credit for getting eight years out of Olbermann

New York Times
“That’s the longest he’s been anywhere,” notes the news boss. Bill Carter and Brian Stelter write of Keith Olbermann‘s departure: “Underlying the decision, which one executive involved said was not a termination but a ‘negotiated separation,’ were years of behind-the-scenes tension, conflicts and near terminations. …The pattern of great promise followed by eventual disaffection was established early in Olbermann’s career.”
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