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…
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December 1st, 2006 2:08 PM | Scott Whitlock
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 “…
November 28th, 2006 3:00 AM | Amy Ridenour
With the final line "Linda Froschauer, president of the National Science Teachers Association, available at the right price," Keith Olbermann of MSNBC Monday named Froschauer his "Worst Person in the…
November 27th, 2006 11:19 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Monday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann suggested that the recent decision by NBC News to label violence in Iraq as a "civil war" was comparable to the 1968 decision by Walter…
November 27th, 2006 9:51 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On FNC's Fox News Watch on Saturday, conservative columnist and FNC contributor Cal Thomas took to task MSNBC host Keith Olbermann for Olbermann's "inaccuracies" and "hot air" as the show's…
November 27th, 2006 11:07 AM | Tim Graham
Los Angeles Times media reporter Matea Gold is the latest journalist to push Keith Olbermann as a hot commodity now that he's boldly captured about one-fifth as many viewers as Bill O'Reilly. True…
November 21st, 2006 3:05 PM | Greg Sheffield
Last Thursday I noted an I Want Media vote about who should be the 2006 Media Person of the Year. I asked for nominations for our own tally, and now that the choices are in, you can vote for who you…
November 20th, 2006 10:09 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Monday's Countdown, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann used his latest "Special Comment" segment to attack President Bush's recent contention, in response to a question about what lessons could be…
November 20th, 2006 6:56 AM | Tim Graham
Howard Kurtz gave the lion's share of his Monday "Media Notes" column to MSNBC, which "has seen the future, and it is politics. Delivered with plenty of opinion." Except that opinion is usually…
November 17th, 2006 11:49 PM | Brad Wilmouth
What's more embarrassing than making a basic math error live on national TV? Making that error while smugly trying to highlight an error made by a regular target who was actually right in the…
November 17th, 2006 9:33 AM | Scott Whitlock
This past week saw The Washington Post ask a classically liberal question: Is America more racist or sexist?
Following the lead of this major paper, ABC’s Diane Sawyer asked the same…
November 17th, 2006 5:03 AM | Warner Todd Huston
Now that the Democrats have picked their Majority Leader in the House the outcome gives us (and her) the first hint that Speaker Pelosi is not the powerhouse she thought she was. Her man, Murtha,…
November 15th, 2006 10:44 PM | Brad Wilmouth
Once gain, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann seems entertained by the thought of conservatives being shot. Less than five months after depicting the image of Rush Limbaugh as the target of gunfire during…
November 15th, 2006 2:38 PM | Ken Shepherd
...oh, that's right.It was yet another overblown fear that the media latched onto but have not revisited since Democrats won last week's election.
At the MRC's Business & Media Institute…
November 15th, 2006 2:30 PM | Julia A. Seymour
Like claims the U.S. was responsible for 9/11 and Republicans were fixing gas prices, the media promoted the left-wing electronic vote-rigging conspiracy.
Now that the…
November 15th, 2006 1:33 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Tuesday's Countdown, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann devoted an entire segment (video available on Countdown Web site) to discussing links between a man arrested for domestic terrorism and "far…
November 14th, 2006 9:13 PM | Noel Sheppard
So, just imagine you were a hot executive producer in Hollywood with a notch on your belt like winning an Emmy for the hit series “The West Wing.” Further envision you were a regular panelist on…
November 13th, 2006 10:36 AM | Noel Sheppard
With all the gushing going on by the liberal media over Keith Olbermann, it’s only fitting that one of his foremost critics on the Internet, our friend at Olbermann Watch, would be reaching across…