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  • O'Reilly critic is fired from job at CN8

    05/22/2008 11:11:55 AM PDT · by raccoonradio · 36 replies · 471+ views
    Boston Globe ^ | 05/22/08 | Carol Beggy and Mark Shanahan
    CN8 host Barry Nolan , who publicly complained a few weeks ago about Bill O'Reilly receiving an award from the Boston chapter of National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, has been fired by the Comcast network. "Their take is that I was insubordinate," Nolan told us yesterday. "They wanted me to sit down and shut up." The host of "Backstage With Barry Nolan" had argued that O'Reilly, the volatile Fox News host and former Channel 7 anchor, was unworthy of the Governor's Award. (Past recipients include the likes of Mike Wallace, Ken Burns, and Natalie Jacobson.) "The idea of...