Montel Williams Fired

Sorry if this has already been posted. But heres what he was fired for. Montel speaks the truth!

That's what happens when you let the right wing have control over the media

"This comes after Fox TV stations, which carried the show in New York and Los Angeles – the country's two biggest TV markets – did not renew the syndicated daytime talk show, according to news reports."

Knowledge is power!

That's what happens when you let the right wing have control over the media

"This comes after Fox TV stations, which carried the show in New York and Los Angeles – the country's two biggest TV markets – did not renew the syndicated daytime talk show, according to news reports."

Knowledge is power!

Jaysonguy

CBS fired him.

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

That's what happens when you let the right wing have control over the media

"This comes after Fox TV stations, which carried the show in New York and Los Angeles – the country's two biggest TV markets – did not renew the syndicated daytime talk show, according to news reports."

Knowledge is power!

pintabear49blue

CBS fired him.

Ummm, you wouldn't have happened to click that link by any chance?

I agree with him in this vid. Always wondered why he'd support a con-artist like Sylvia Brown though......JohnBasedow

Agreed me either

That's what happens when you let the right wing have control over the media

"This comes after Fox TV stations, which carried the show in New York and Los Angeles – the country's two biggest TV markets – did not renew the syndicated daytime talk show, according to news reports."

Knowledge is power!

Jaysonguy

Right wing having control of the media??? Am I missing something? Oh yeah, O'Rielly, Sean Hannity, and other Fox News hosts are conservative, so the whole freaking network must be right-wing. Oh, and it's also racist because Montel is black. Gimme a break dude.

Wow, shocking.

I totally agree with him, in all respects. The media is BS.

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

That's what happens when you let the right wing have control over the media

"This comes after Fox TV stations, which carried the show in New York and Los Angeles – the country's two biggest TV markets – did not renew the syndicated daytime talk show, according to news reports."

Knowledge is power!

Wslacker

Right wing having control of the media??? Am I missing something? Oh yeah, O'Rielly, Sean Hannity, and other Fox News hosts are conservative, so the whole freaking network must be right-wing. Oh, and it's also racist because Montel is black. Gimme a break dude.

You're kidding right?

Please oh my God please don't tell me you think they're not slanted to the right, and by slanted I mean they're a ring wing network.

[QUOTE="pintabear49blue"][QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

That's what happens when you let the right wing have control over the media

"This comes after Fox TV stations, which carried the show in New York and Los Angeles – the country's two biggest TV markets – did not renew the syndicated daytime talk show, according to news reports."

Knowledge is power!

Jaysonguy

CBS fired him.

Ummm, you wouldn't have happened to click that link by any chance?

I did. The fox affiliates did not pick up the show for syndication. The affilaites do not = fox news.

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"][QUOTE="Wslacker"][QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

That's what happens when you let the right wing have control over the media

"This comes after Fox TV stations, which carried the show in New York and Los Angeles – the country's two biggest TV markets – did not renew the syndicated daytime talk show, according to news reports."

Knowledge is power!

JohnBasedow

Right wing having control of the media??? Am I missing something? Oh yeah, O'Rielly, Sean Hannity, and other Fox News hosts are conservative, so the whole freaking network must be right-wing. Oh, and it's also racist because Montel is black. Gimme a break dude.

You're kidding right?

Please oh my God please don't tell me you think they're not slanted to the right, and by slanted I mean they're a ring wing network.

What? :|

No offense to any of you but the public speaks, and they want to hear about spears and ledger. The media just conforms to their desires. Why he got fired for that, I have no idea, but the media doesn't spoon-feed that onto people, the people ask for it.DeeJayInphinity

That doesn't make the people (or the station) right.

While he used his right to free speech, and well, Fox is allowed to fire him.

And wtf is up with the end of civil rights, he wasn't fired because he was black... ignorant fools these days.

I have a lot of respect for Montel for doing this.

I'm down with montel o nthis one. its the matrix everywhere!!!

Sorry if this has already been posted. But heres what he was fired for. Montel speaks the truth!

SaintTheKing

Tell me what the link has in it, the YouTube link, I can't look at it for now.

Ok lets clear this up, and look at it from a logical perspective.

Here's what I gathered (some maybe wrong since there's alot of bad info in modern journalism).

1. Montel's show is "created" by CBS then sold to other TV stations. The two largest contracts being Fox in NY, and LA.

2. Montel made these statements on a FOX show.

3. 3 days later the two largest markets (fox NY, and fox LA) decieded not to renew their syndication rights.

To me it seems this seems like Montel knew he was on the way out, and wasn't going down easy (or at least as easy as they thought he would). First getting cancelled isn't quite like getting fired, It's basically not renewing a contract. This isn't like the Bill Maher situation where networks took the show off the air before the contract was up. Montel from what I've seen of him was never really a person to "bite the hand that feeds" so this seems a bit out of character, except that if Montel knew he was getting canned then a rant like this is pretty typical behavior. Lastly it's very unlikely that Fox NY and LA planed on renewing the contract then saw this, and changed their minds. In media decisions like this are not made on a whim, but often take months of market research, and debate. To me it seems much more logical that Montel got wind his show was on the way out, and went off on a rant than Montel went off on a rant (right before a contact renewal), and then his show got cancelled.

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[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"][QUOTE="Wslacker"][QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

That's what happens when you let the right wing have control over the media

"This comes after Fox TV stations, which carried the show in New York and Los Angeles – the country's two biggest TV markets – did not renew the syndicated daytime talk show, according to news reports."

Knowledge is power!

Taegukki

Right wing having control of the media??? Am I missing something? Oh yeah, O'Rielly, Sean Hannity, and other Fox News hosts are conservative, so the whole freaking network must be right-wing. Oh, and it's also racist because Montel is black. Gimme a break dude.

You're kidding right?

Please oh my God please don't tell me you think they're not slanted to the right, and by slanted I mean they're a ring wing network.

What? :|

No offense to any of you but the public speaks, and they want to hear about spears and ledger. The media just conforms to their desires. Why he got fired for that, I have no idea, but the media doesn't spoon-feed that onto people, the people ask for it.DeeJayInphinity

agreed

He actually had a point. Why the hell would he get fired for that?Quadrifoglio

I'm guessing that he didn't do what he agreed to do, which was talk about the Ledger guy.

Edit: I actually watched the video. That's just wrong. The man's got a point! And it's not just Ledger, but also Britney Spears, the Osmonds, Anna Nicole and her baby, too many to list.k_smoove

It's a stupid point though.

Like I said before, people aren't sad about Heath Ledger because they knew him and thought he was a nice guy. They are sad because he was a great actor and they "knew him" THROUGH HIS WORK, which they will never get to see again.

MILLIONS of people actually SAW the results of Heath Ledger's work, and they loved it.

Now, how many people knew about the works of Johnny Trimplenick, who died in Iraq sometime recently? Well, considering that he worked as a janitor at Sears before going to Iraq, pretty much nobody but his family and friends, who are gonna be at his funeral.

Am I gonna be at Heath Ledger's funeral? Hell no. I didn't know him, just like I didn't know Johnny Trimplenick. But I DID know about Heath Ledger's work, while I didn't know about Johnny Trimplenick's work, so I'm gonna be talking about Heath Ledger's death, NOT Johnny Trimplenick's.

It's that simple.

Yeah, Montel can go into an interview about Heath Ledger's death, and try to start **** by saying how we should be talking about dead soldiers instead.

And by that token, when Montel starts talking about dead soldiers, I could try to divert the discussion towards my biased preference for talking about dead construction workers and murdered convenience store clerks.

But I wouldn't do that, because that'd be pretty ****ing tasteless.

If he wants to talk about soldiers who died in Iraq, he's free to do so all he likes. But yes, it's pretty ****ing tasteless to go on a show where the subject is a particular person's death, and then use that as an appearance to try to get his point across.

**** that. REALLY. It was tasteless. The man ****ing died. Show some respect. And if he wasn't willing to show some respect, he shouldn't have done the interview with the intention of downplaying a person's death just to get his point across.

Thats both stupid and true. 26 men who were killed for there country get almost no coverage and when he tells people he gets fired? Whats our country coming too?Guiltfeeder566

Next you'll presumably want to hear about the dozens of construction workers who died today to provide infrastructure. Or the miners who died from complications due to decades of exposure in mines. Or te minimum wage people working in convenience stores who died so that you could fill up your gas tank in order to go to work. Or the plumber who got poop splashed into his eyeball while he was fixing your blocked pipes, and lost his ****ing eye due to a malicious bacterial infection.

Hell, let's just make the new nothing but Death News. Make a huge ****ing list of everyone who died today, then try to provide each of their deaths equal coverage as far as talking about them PERSONALLY.

We could change the name of "CNN" to "CEN" (cable Eulogy Network) and have it be nothing but eulogies, all the time, with 99% of those eulogies being about people who no one gives a **** about, just to be fair.

:roll:

Whatever, man. Montel Williams ****ed up. End of story. He made a valid point, but he picked the entirely wrong time/place to do it.

THEY WERE NOT ****ING TALKING ABOUT DEAD SOLDIERS. As noble as it is for him to be concerned about dead soldiers, you do NOT agree to talk about John Doe's death and then say "yeah, John Doe died. So ****ing what. I want to hear us talking about how some dude who I never knew died in Iraq".

WFHever. **** that, and **** Montel. What he did was tasteless, crass, and rude as hell, and if I did that kind of **** at my job, you bet your ass that I would be fired for it.

[QUOTE="Guiltfeeder566"]Thats both stupid and true. 26 men who were killed for there country get almost no coverage and when he tells people he gets fired? Whats our country coming too?MrGeezer

Next you'll presumably want to hear about the dozens of construction workers who died today to provide infrastructure. Or the miners who died from complications due to decades of exposure in mines. Or te minimum wage people working in convenience stores who died so that you could fill up your gas tank in order to go to work. Or the plumber who got poop splashed into his eyeball while he was fixing your blocked pipes, and lost his ****ing eye due to a malicious bacterial infection.

Hell, let's just make the new nothing but Death News. Make a huge ****ing list of everyone who died today, then try to provide each of their deaths equal coverage as far as talking about them PERSONALLY.

We could change the name of "CNN" to "CEN" (cable Eulogy Network) and have it be nothing but eulogies, all the time, with 99% of those eulogies being about people who no one gives a **** about, just to be fair.

:roll:

Whatever, man. Montel Williams ****ed up. End of story. He made a valid point, but he picked the entirely wrong time/place to do it.

THEY WERE NOT ****ING TALKING ABOUT DEAD SOLDIERS. As noble as it is for him to be concerned about dead soldiers, you do NOT agree to talk about John Doe's death and then say "yeah, John Doe died. So ****ing what. I want to hear us talking about how some dude who I never knew died in Iraq".

WFHever. **** that, and **** Montel. What he did was tasteless, crass, and rude as hell, and if I did that kind of **** at my job, you bet your ass that I would be fired for it.

You actually have a point on that. His point was valid, his choice, however, was not very smart. Though, the way the Ledger situation, much like the daily Britney watch and the still constant, post mortem Anna Nicole coverage, was covered did point out the fact that celebrity takes precedent over the real issues in America; much to the point where we devote hours upon hours a day to cover it from every angle. Good point. Bad soapbox to make it on.