Keith and the Cover
June 17th, 2006 7:08 AM
Staring hard at the forthcoming cover of Olbermann's book "The Worst Person in the World," doesn't it appear, oh so poetically, that the cover seems to be applying that honor to Olbermann himself?
Olbermann Follow-Up: Keith Curses at His Viewers
June 15th, 2006 10:05 AM
On Wednesday, NewsBusters reported how MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann sent an e-mail message to a viewer in which he debased colleague Rita Cosby as well as his boss at the time. Lloyd Grove of the New York Daily News (hat tip to NB reader John in CA) reported Thursday that Olbermann has been responding to his likely voluminous hate mail with…hate mail:“Keith Olbermann's vacation isn't going so well. “…
New York Post Columnist Asks ‘Do We Need MSNBC
June 14th, 2006 2:35 PM
Don Kaplan of the New York Post has a great column today about the failing cable station MSNBC, and quite appropriately asks why we need it (hat tip to TV Newser):“‘It's really running third in a two-horse race,’ says Reese Schoenfeld, who co-founded CNN. “He questions whether MSNBC is even in the same league as Fox News Channel and CNN. ‘Everybody compares MSNBC to Fox and CNN - when its real…
Olbermann Claims Rita Cosby is ‘Dumber Than a Suitcase of Rocks
June 14th, 2006 1:49 PM
Apparently, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann doesn’t play well with others – color me shocked.According to Lloyd Grove of the New York Daily News (hat tip to TV Newser), MSNBC’s Olbermann sent an e-mail message to one of his three fans that aren’t related to him that included a rather derogatory comment about his colleague, Rita Cosby:“‘Rita's nice,’ Olbermann wrote to a fan from his MSNBC E-mail…
Media Owe Rove an Apology -- or at Least a Few Hugs
June 14th, 2006 9:46 AM
In America, people are innocent until proven guilty, unless of course they are Republican.No finer example of such legal relativism has occurred in recent memory than the case of President Bush’s top advisor, Karl Rove. For months, virtually every mainstream media outlet proclaimed his guilt regarding the Valerie Plame Wilson affair, or what has been not so affectionately named the CIA-leak case.…
MSNBC's Surprising Move
June 12th, 2006 5:11 PM
MSNBC surprised everyone Monday with its announcement that the struggling channel will now be headed by an executive tag team of "Today" chief Phil Griffin and one of its own show hosts, Dan Abrams. The appointment of Griffin didn't exactly come as a surprise; last week's scuttlebutt had him being given the top spot. Abrams's elevation did. It also gives insight into what MSNBC's strategy to…
All Three Cable Networks Featured Nick Berg's Dad, Who Compared Bush t
June 8th, 2006 1:00 PM
In May of 2004, Abu Musab Al Zarqawi participated in the beheading of Nicholas Berg, a businessman working in Iraq. His father, Michael, emerged in the aftermath of that crime as an outspoken liberal activist and is now running for Congress in Delaware on the Green Party ticket. So who better to bring on for a discussion about Zarqawi’s death? Michael Berg appeared on all three cable channels…
Kaplan: FOB Who Hailed Dan Rather as 'Meticulously Careful to Be Fair
June 7th, 2006 8:26 PM
Rick Kaplan, who as reported earlier by Matthew Sheffield, announced his departure Wednesday from MSNBC where he’d run the least-watched cable news network as its President since February of 2004, has a long record of friendly relations with former President Bill Clinton and hostility to conservatives -- as well as admiration for Dan Rather combined with condescension for conservative critics of…
