What's MSNBC's Problem?

Here's a big part of it.

Olbermann, who signed a four-year, $30 million contract extension in Nov. 2008, . . .

He was supposed to beat O'Reilly? These guys are part of a shrinking universe, but their egos are too big for it.

What happens next? Is it like a red giant star that runs out of the fuel that was keeping it inflated and then collapses into a white dwarf?

I don't know what happens in a shrinking universe, whether everything shrinks but nobody notices or parts of it just keep disappearing as in an episode of Star Trek:TNG. But those of us who aren't part of it surely could tell it's shrinking.