Keith Olbermann’s Angry Email Trail Traces Breakup With Current TV

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Howard Kurtz on the correspondence that reveals an acrimonious relationship.

Published Apr. 1 2012 4:45AM EDT

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It was a terrible marriage from the beginning.

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Just weeks after Keith Olbermann launched his nightly program on Current TV last June, his team was complaining that the network founded by Al Gore and attorney Joel Hyatt wasn’t living up to its promises to support a professional cable news show.

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Keith Olbermann’s Angry Email Trail Traces Breakup With Current TV

Howard Kurtz on the correspondence that reveals an acrimonious relationship.

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