I found this a bit amusing:

As you may know, Olbermann returned to his MSNBC program after just two days of enforced absence. (Given cable television’s short attention span, two days may well have seemed like an "indefinite suspension.")

Ted Koppel: Olbermann, O’Reilly and the death of real news

He had to specify”Cable television” to keep his own , “objective”, “Network News” and audience out of that little jab.  As if people who watch the “major networks” have longer attention spans. 

But he continues (actually ,  a bit prior to the above quote):

Broadcast news has been outflanked and will soon be overtaken by scores of other media options. The need for clear, objective reporting in a world of rising religious fundamentalism, economic interdependence and global ecological problems is probably greater than it has ever been. But we are no longer a national audience receiving news from a handful of trusted gatekeepers; we’re now a million or more clusters of consumers, harvesting information from like-minded providers.

and so the “clear, objective” reporting,  unfettered by TV studio economics (yeah, right)…is (and I agree with him to a point)  left to “like minded” smorgasboards (I can agree that Fox viewers turn to Fox to validate their desired “viewpoints”,  and MSNBC viewers tend to want the articulation of their concerns and the things that piss them off).  But the “handfuls of trusted gatekeepers”?   That shouts nostalgia.  I feel for Ted.  And I still hold a great deal of respect for his body of work.  Nothing can take that away from him.  But this is a “high horse” if I ever saw one.