Keith Olbermann’s fractious relationship with Current TV had been deteriorating for months before his firing last week, according to email excerpts posted by The Daily Beast‘s Howard Kurtz.In early August, Olbermann’s manager Michael Price sent Current CEO Joel Hyatt a list of dozens of “deficiencies” plaguing Countdown. “Immediate attention” is required and “we are not aware of any demonstrable effort to address the issues,” Price reportedly wrote. On September 21, Current TV’s President David Bohrman reportedly wrote that the network will work “quickly” to resolve the production problems and “we will get almost all the things you need and have been asking for.”
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