On Sunday, NewsBusters asked readers, "Will NBC Succeed in Making Olbermann Mainstream?"
70 percent of respondents said, "No, he's too crazy."
Well, Nielsen ratings of his "Countdown"…
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March 31st, 2008 11:37 PM | Matthew Sheffield
You may not be aware of it but Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is a virtual war zone, one of which most conservatives are blissfully unaware. Over at the New Republic, Eve Fairbanks explores…
March 30th, 2008 11:07 AM | Brad Wilmouth
Tonight, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann will once again get to do his Countdown show on the NBC network. A frequent and harsh critic of President Bush, especially regarding the Iraq war, Olbermann has…
March 27th, 2008 2:53 PM | Ken Shepherd
Leave it to liberals to pile on Sen. John McCain with cheap shots about his age, and we're not talking making jokes about him serving in the Civil War or what not. Mocking John McCain's age, MSNBC…
March 25th, 2008 5:13 PM | Tim Graham
Sunday’s Washington Post Magazine carried a cover story titled "Getting Hosed." Over a cartoon of Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and Bill Maher (who looked more like Robin Williams), "investigative…
March 24th, 2008 8:50 PM | Mark Finkelstein
I count Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace among the fairest and most incisive interviewers in the business, and hope his tenure at Fox News is a long one. Anyone who can relentlessly cross-…
March 20th, 2008 7:48 PM | Lynn Davidson
The left and the media love to hyperventilate about the right wing “hate speech” on the Internet, but the anger and vitriol of the left dwarfs that of the right,…
March 11th, 2008 9:40 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Forget the popcorn: it could take a case of Cognac and a humidor of good cigars to fully savor the warfare that's breaking out in Dem ranks. Who could have predicted that Keith Olbermann would be…
March 10th, 2008 4:54 PM | Tim Graham
A prostitution scandal strikes the Democrats? When Sen. David Vitter admitted he’d used the services of the "DC Madam," thanks to probing by ABC News, the major media saw harm for the entire…
March 8th, 2008 3:58 PM | Noel Sheppard
You know, it's one thing when liberal bloggers and folks with absolutely no understanding of civics claim that George W. Bush stole the 2000 presidential election from Nobel Laureate Al Gore.
…March 8th, 2008 12:56 PM | Noel Sheppard
NewsBusters has frequently reported the deplorable connection between MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and the Clinton front-organizations Media Matters and Think Progress.
On Friday, conservative…
March 8th, 2008 7:53 AM | Mark Finkelstein
"The opening of a trapdoor and the sudden snap of a hangman's noose at dawn yesterday brought an extraordinary end to a political era in Iraq." -- Opening line from The Guardian's report of the…
March 7th, 2008 4:02 PM | Tim Graham
Look out! Here comes a liberal media feud. On his MSNBC program every night, host Dan Abrams hosts a media-criticism segment called "Beat the Press." On Thursday night, Abrams heavily implied ABC’…
March 6th, 2008 4:10 PM | Tim Graham
On Wednesday’s episode of Live With Dan Abrams on MSNBC, Abrams lit into Rush Limbaugh as "un-American" for encouraging Republican voters to cross over and vote for Hillary Clinton on Tuesday. In…
March 4th, 2008 9:24 PM | Brent Baker
In a moment of excess hyperbole, even for Chris Matthews, at about 7:33 PM EST Tuesday night, Matthews claimed “nothing's done since '65, when we did the civil rights bill,” to fix the nation's…
March 4th, 2008 5:16 PM | Brent Bozell
Now that Barack Obama is closing in on the Democratic nomination, some are wondering whether the media will be tougher in their coverage. There’s a better question: is it possible to be any softer…
March 4th, 2008 2:38 PM | Justin McCarthy
If Rush Limbaugh, in promoting his radio show, said we must "ignore partisanship," would anyone take those words seriously? Limbaugh did not air that ad, but left wing MSNBC host Keith Olbermann…
February 28th, 2008 8:30 AM | Terry Trippany
The title to this article is exactly how I'd write it if I were a political hack trying to drum up a faux controversy for use by other political hacks in the mainstream media. Which is exactly…
February 26th, 2008 3:43 PM | Matthew Sheffield
Given his penchant for comparing Republicans to Hitler, using such phrases as "slinging crap," and stating that the Bush presidency "has now devolved into a criminal conspiracy to cover the ass of…
February 25th, 2008 5:50 PM | Matthew Balan
CNN’s Jon Klein, in an internal memo obtained by the TVNewser blog, bragged about the strong ratings the network won during its recent debates and primary coverage, and spun the reason for this…
February 23rd, 2008 2:55 PM | Noel Sheppard
Do MSNBC higher-ups ever watch the garbage being spewed on a nightly basis during their primetime schedule, or does Keith Olbermann have the freedom at this point to present anything he wants on…
February 21st, 2008 2:45 AM | Brent Baker
MSNBC was so excited about a Thursday New York Times story with a derogatory look at Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s supposed relationship with a female lobbyist eight years ago,…
February 20th, 2008 8:41 PM | Noel Sheppard
An interesting thing happened during MSNBC's coverage of Tuesday's primaries: Keith Olbermann humiliated Chris Matthews as studio employees laughed in the background (video after the jump).…
February 19th, 2008 11:14 AM | Noel Sheppard
If you were to write an article about how the three cable news networks are covering a story, would you address the one with the highest ratings first, or the also-ran?
At the Washington…
February 19th, 2008 2:23 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann admitted to feeling a "deep personal affection" for Bill and Hillary Clinton during a segment with The Washington Post's Dana Milbank as the…