Today's starters
Media: Keith Olbermann wants a raise (despite still remaining in fourth-place). The champion of the people is gunning for $4 million a year. TV reporter Max Robbins says CNN…
Displaying results: 2026 - 2050 of 2348
December 15th, 2006 11:03 AM | Scott Whitlock
You might think the media, given the fact that they helped engineer a Democratic victory in the midterms, and that it’s almost Christmas (sorry, Holiday), would ease their assault on President…
December 12th, 2006 9:32 PM | Mark Finkelstein
How out there is Eric Alterman? MSNBC, the network of Keith Olbermann, he who has accused Pres. Bush of fascism and called for his impeachment - fired him, presumably for being too extreme.
…December 12th, 2006 12:46 PM | Brian Fitzpatrick
Did you know that the War on Christmas, the misbegotten movement to ban nativity scenes at City Hall and replace “Merry Christmas” with “Happy Holidays,” is in full retreat? The media are turning…
December 12th, 2006 11:05 AM | Noel Sheppard
Is Keith Olbermann just a modern-day reincarnation of the crazed anchorman depicted in the 1976 Academy Award-winning film “Network?” In a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article published Tuesday, KO…
December 11th, 2006 11:09 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Monday's Countdown during the show's regular "Oddball" segment, while reporting on the controversial decision of the Seattle-Tacoma Airport to remove its Christmas trees from public view rather…
December 9th, 2006 2:00 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann again discussed whether President Bush is the "worst ever" President, inspired by comments from Republican Senator Gordon Smith that leaving…
December 6th, 2006 10:15 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann reported the recent deaths of 10 American troops in Iraq by commenting that they had "paid the ultimate price for President Bush's execution…
December 6th, 2006 8:39 PM | Mark Finkelstein
I don't track Keith Olbermann's descents into mean-spirited bad taste systematically enough to definitively proclaim that he has charted a new low. Let's just say that he has once again indulged…
December 6th, 2006 12:31 AM | Brad Wilmouth
You know you're liberal if even a liberal media watchdog group calls you liberal -- that is, unless you're MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. While Olbermann denies displaying a liberal bias on his show,…
December 5th, 2006 9:50 PM | Brad Wilmouth
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who regularly uses his Countdown show to ridicule President Bush, on Tuesday finally included the President in his list of nominees for "Worst Person in the World." For…
December 5th, 2006 10:25 AM | Noel Sheppard
For a man that is averaging a paltry 600,000 viewers an evening, he sure is full of…himself. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann sat down with the folks from Radar Online for an interview published Monday (…
December 4th, 2006 4:36 PM | Brian Fitzpatrick
“'Values' Voters Fade as Factor in U.S. Campaign,” crows an October 17 Reuters headline. If this is true, it isn't happening by accident. With the November elections looming, the biggest players…
December 4th, 2006 9:54 AM | Noel Sheppard
The following is an op-ed of a previously posted topic.
Well, it only took three weeks for the first unhappy liberal to recognize that he might have been conned by the Democrats’ bait and…
December 2nd, 2006 11:29 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday's Countdown, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann attacked FNC's Bill O'Reilly, calling him a "holy you-know-what liar" because O'Reilly recently bragged that he had voiced the need for tough…
December 1st, 2006 4:19 PM | Mark Finkelstein
CENTCOM is one of the five geographically-defined unified commands within the Department of Defense. With responsibility for 27 countries including Iraq, CENTCOM is commanded by Gen. John Abizaid…
December 1st, 2006 2:08 PM | Scott Whitlock
Ever wonder what makes Keith Olbermann such a fine journalist? Well, according to the former sportscaster, it’s the fact that he doesn’t "make the facts up" like Rush Limbaugh does.
PBS host…
December 1st, 2006 12:58 AM | Amy Ridenour
The Laurie David/Al Gore/Keith Olbermann/Washington Post v. National Science Teachers Association controversy continues, with Science magazine weighing in with facts that don't look so good for…
December 1st, 2006 12:49 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Thursday's Countdown, two days after comparing Newt Gingrich's ideas on free speech and anti-terrorism measures to Naziism, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann aimed his latest "Special Comment" rant at…
November 30th, 2006 9:33 PM | Brent Baker
On Thursday's Countdown, MSNBC's Keith Countdown made Brent Bozell, President of the Media Research Center which runs NewsBusters, the “winner” of his nightly “Worst Person in the World.” Bozell's…
November 30th, 2006 1:17 AM | Amy Ridenour
The National Science Teachers Association has now officially responded to Laurie David's Washington Post op-ed (see Noel Sheppard's Newsbusters post on the op-ed here) essentially accusing the group…
November 29th, 2006 2:03 PM | Noel Sheppard
It seems safe to say that Keith Olbermann has found his audience, and hit his stride. At this point, all he has to do is find a well-known conservative to bash and belittle each night, and his…
November 29th, 2006 10:14 AM | Noel Sheppard
On November 27, 2006, the media stepped up their demands for an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq by officially naming the incursion a civil war. While questioning their motives, Americans…
November 28th, 2006 10:14 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Tuesday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann included Fox News Watch as one of the nominees in his regular "Worst Person in the World" segment. Awarding the FNC show third place with…
November 28th, 2006 10:52 AM | Rich Noyes
Amid all of the media excitement of NBC’s choice to grandly pronounce the ongoing violence in Iraq a “civil war,” some (like MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann) are gleefully touting NBC’s editorializing as a “…