Olbermann’s Special Comment on the Sherrod case and the power of the media
USDA official Shirley Sherrod was falsely accused of racism by a right wing blogger on basis of a few sentences from a speech she gave, and by means of a televised witch hunt and no further investigation of her full speech, she was fired. She has already been reinstated, but the damage is done.
A rant of 12 minutes long, but very true and alarming.
Sometimes Europe is not that far from this sort of American controversies.
