The blow-up that is occurring on MSNBC is beginning to draw attention from media members including the former co-anchor of the "CBS Evening News" Connie Chung who advised those involved in the on…
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August 28th, 2008 1:15 PM | Noel Sheppard
August 28th, 2008 12:13 PM | Matthew Sheffield
One thing the ongoing feud between MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann has demonstrated that politics can get very personal. Both anchors are very committed Democrats yet seem to despise…
August 28th, 2008 8:05 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Update | 10: 30 AM: Scarborough acknowledges Biden's 'F' rating. At 8:36 AM EDT, Joe said that "a blog" had attacked him, noting Biden's 'F' rating from gun owners. View video here,…
August 28th, 2008 1:36 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
Chris Matthews liked the pick of longtime Senator Joe Biden for Barack Obama but the prospect of John McCain picking a veep, of similar voltage on the Republican side, like Minnesota Governor Tim…
August 27th, 2008 10:50 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Few Republicans have made it onto MSNBC air during the network's Dem convention coverage, but even that is apparently too much for Keith Olbermann. As Chris Matthews was interviewing GOP…
August 27th, 2008 10:36 PM | Noel Sheppard
On Wednesday, NewsBusters asked: Is the hatred [Keith] Olbermann has been spewing on virtually a nightly basis beginning to take its toll on his fellow on air personalities presaging a looming…
August 27th, 2008 8:49 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Another chapter in the ongoing Matthews-Olbermann feud? Yesterday, a catfight broke out between the two when Olbermann suggested Matthews had stolen an idea from two female pundits, and later…
August 27th, 2008 3:57 PM | Kerry Picket
Mainstream news anchors covering the Democratic National Convention are getting more impatient by the day as the McCain campaign broadcasts ads using Hillary Clinton's own words against Democratic…
August 27th, 2008 3:34 PM | Noel Sheppard
As my colleague Mark Finkelstein reported Tuesday, MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann labelled long-time Hillary Clinton advisor Howard Wolfson a Tokyo Rose-like traitor due…
August 27th, 2008 1:40 PM | P.J. Gladnick
It appears that Keith Olbermann might be vying for the title of Most Obnoxious Anchor On Television. First we had Olbermann dissing Joe Scarborough during a live broadcast on Monday from the…
August 27th, 2008 10:29 AM | Noel Sheppard
About 24 hours after dissing Joe Scarborough via an open microphone during Monday's coverage of the Democratic National Convention, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann took an insulting poke at partner Chris…
August 27th, 2008 7:26 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Keith Olbermann has forgotten the figure-skating judge's cardinal rule: be sparing in the marks you award early contestants, to leave room for the favorites who perform at the end. After his gushing…
August 27th, 2008 3:22 AM | Brent Baker
Most prevalent theme during Tuesday night's coverage of the Democratic National Convention, after speculation over healing the Clinton-Obama feud: TV journalists worrying about how the Democrats are…
August 27th, 2008 12:44 AM | Matthew Sheffield
Not that it counts for much but who are the most influential political media figures? It's an interesting question, one that for the most part is hardly a provable assertion. How can one measure…
August 26th, 2008 10:08 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Update | Aug. 27 4:15 PM: Wolfson Fires Back!
Saying he's "not gonna take any lectures on how to be a good Democrat from two people who spent the last two years relentlessly attacking Bill and…
August 26th, 2008 5:38 PM | Tim Graham
PBS demonstrated it clearly isn’t afraid to fly the flag of liberalism when it allowed one of its multi-millionaire stars, filmmaker Ken Burns, to not only make a syrupy socialist tribute to Ted…
August 26th, 2008 1:18 PM | Colleen Raezler
During MSNBC's convention coverage on Monday night, Bill Maher explained to Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann that American politics "seem to be getting worse because, sorry to say it, people get…
August 26th, 2008 11:42 AM | Tim Graham
During Monday night’s live convention coverage on MSNBC, Chris Matthews chewed out the "culturally conservative person, I’m not saying bigoted person," who want "people in the ghetto" to get their…
August 26th, 2008 11:40 AM | P.J. Gladnick
Keith Olbermann seems to be suffering from a bad case of foot-in-mouth disease during the Democrat convention coverage. As noted earlier by NewsBusters' Mark Finkelstein, Olbermann, after…
August 26th, 2008 9:00 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Tensions are running high at MSNBC, at least surrounding veteran host Joe Scarborough who seems to be increasingly discontented at his network's decision to market itself as the cable net of…
August 25th, 2008 11:56 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Beginning? Borderline?How unbalanced was MSNBC's tag team tonight? When Keith Olbermann felt himself getting verklempt over Michelle Obama's speech, he threw it, for some fair-n-balanced…
August 23rd, 2008 5:51 PM | Brent Baker
Hailing Barack Obama's attacks on John McCain's foreign policy as “profound” with “the fire I've been waiting for,” during live MSNBC coverage Saturday afternoon of Obama introducing running mate…
August 23rd, 2008 3:58 AM | Brent Baker
MSNBC went live shortly before 1 AM EDT, with David Shuster anchoring, to announce that Senator Joe Biden is Barack Obama's pick for Vice President, and Shuster was joined via phone over the next…
August 22nd, 2008 6:14 AM | Jeff Poor
Consider the source on this one, but the face of liberalism on cable television, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, finds it “ironic” an event meant to shed light on the “hoax of global warming” would…
August 21st, 2008 12:45 AM | Mike Bates
This evening on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, the host expressed amusement at something he'd heard earlier today on his own network. Ironically, the source of his merriment was a question posed by…