The MTV Video Music Awards show was as predictable as watching Keith Olbermann or Chris Matthews do their broadcast. Other than celebrating its 25th anniversary and giving Britney Spears a…
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September 8th, 2008 2:46 AM | Kerry Picket
September 8th, 2008 1:59 AM | Noel Sheppard
In case you missed it, MSNBC has decided to replace its election coverage co-anchors Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann with David Gregory.
Having followed Matthews career since his days…
September 7th, 2008 10:21 PM | Noel Sheppard
In today's "Better Late Than Never" moment, MSNBC has just announced that Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann will no longer act as anchors of the network's election coverage.
Let me be the…
September 7th, 2008 10:25 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday's Countdown show, liberal Air America host Rachel Maddow, substitute hosting for Keith Olbermann, characterized Condoleezza Rice's talks with Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi as a scandal…
September 6th, 2008 1:18 PM | Noel Sheppard
On Friday evening, HBO's Bill Maher announced to the world what certainly won't come as a shock to many: "You know who's putting country first? I am by supporting Obama."
With this coming a…
September 5th, 2008 2:52 AM | Matthew Balan
Just after the bottom half of the 8 pm Eastern hour of CNN’s coverage of the Republican convention, as Oklahoma Congresswoman Mary Fallin began an introduction of a video presentation about…
September 5th, 2008 2:29 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
Apparently fed up of hearing what they believe was a phony line being delivered by GOP spokesmen – that women across the country were offended by the media questioning Sarah Palin's fitness as a…
September 4th, 2008 8:55 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Just moments after MSNBC aired the Republican convention's video tribute to victims of 9/11, shown at about 8:40pm EDT Thursday night (September 4), Keith Olbermann offered this angry rebuke of…
September 4th, 2008 11:56 AM | Matthew Sheffield
About a year into MSNBC's strategy of refashioning itself into the network for Bush haters, some consequences are starting to emerge for the cable channel and its corporate parent NBC.
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September 4th, 2008 8:08 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Subtract the subdued demeanor and the good tailoring, and how much difference is there between Brian Williams and Keith Olbermann? Take Williams' post-Palin speech analysis. Was the Nightly News…
September 4th, 2008 3:08 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
During MSNBC's Wednesday night live coverage of the Republican National Convention Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Tom Brokaw and others scoffed at the idea they had an anti-Sarah Palin agenda.…
September 3rd, 2008 8:28 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Be grateful for small things. Ann Curry didn't call Bristol Palin's baby "illegitimate" or a "bastard." She settled for "out-of-wedlock." Now in fairness, NBC's Curry was in theory listing things…
September 3rd, 2008 5:14 PM | NB Staff
ST. PAUL, Minn.-- Walking around the convention area this afternoon, NewsBusters caught up with Fox News contributor and former Hillary Clinton campaign communications director Howard Wolfson.…
September 3rd, 2008 10:30 AM | Mike Bates
Mainstream media complicity to destroy the candidacy of Sarah Palin is obvious. Numerous instances have been cited here at NewsBusters, some outrageously blatant. Slightly more subtle bias was…
September 3rd, 2008 7:15 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann began to poignantly patch things up two nights ago. But there's clearly still mucho trabajo to be done to heal the rift between Joe Scarborough and the…
September 3rd, 2008 5:03 AM | Brent Baker
Obsessing over Sarah Palin's pro-life position on abortion, MSNBC hosts and reporters on Tuesday night repeatedly raised it and painted it as a detriment to Republicans even though last week with…
September 2nd, 2008 11:56 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Reviewing speeches at the Dem convention, Keith Olbermann was like a mother describing her child's performance in a middle-school musical. "A grand slam across the street," enthused Olbermann over…
September 2nd, 2008 9:57 PM | Mark Finkelstein
If a hypothetical tabloid owned by, say, Richard Mellon Scaife, had a cover story with scurrilous accusations about Joe Biden, do you think Chris Matthews would be waving it about on camera and Keith…
September 2nd, 2008 4:12 PM | Ken Shepherd
ST. PAUL, Minn.-- NewsBusters editor Matthew Sheffield appeared on KIRO radio, 710 AM in Seattle and available online streaming right here. Sheffield was a guest on the Dori Monson Show, live from…
September 2nd, 2008 2:55 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann tagged John McCain as the day’s "Worst Person in the World," as he charged that McCain is "suffering from at least one actual delusion," and…
September 2nd, 2008 7:30 AM | Mark Finkelstein
No, not Chris Matthews to Keith Olbermann. That media odd couple have already begun to kiss and make up. Instead, it was Joe Scarborough who authored the line this morning, directing it at Obama…
September 1st, 2008 8:49 PM | Mark Finkelstein
It's a love-in, man!Looks like the grown-ups at NBC/MSNBC have taken the kids aside and told them to kiss and make up. After the embarrassing "tension convention" [to quote Imus] at the DNC amongst…
September 1st, 2008 5:18 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday’s Countdown show, while appearing as a guest, Newsweek’s Howard Fineman, also an MSNBC political analyst, contended that, regarding her level of experience, Sarah Palin "makes Barack…
September 1st, 2008 3:53 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Given Hurricane Gustav, the GOP convention—and the MSM's inherent inclination to underreport good news from Iraq—a major story is not getting the attention it deserves. Here's how President Bush…
September 1st, 2008 12:20 PM | Mark Finkelstein
The MSNBC promo bills the network as "the place for politics." Looks like it's the place for rib-ticklin' comedy, too. Check out Keith Olbermann's side-splitter from the ad:KEITH OLBERMANN: This…