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…
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August 27th, 2008 10:29 AM | Noel Sheppard
August 27th, 2008 9:50 AM | Mark Finkelstein
The Barnicle clan should be grateful Mike landed the MSNBC gig. It could have been tough making ends meet had he chosen a career in used-car sales. I base that on some hilarious footage from…
August 27th, 2008 4:26 AM | Warner Todd Huston
The ratings for the Democratic National Convention for ABC, CBS and NBC fell by a million viewers compared to the opener for the 2004 convention with headliner Bill Clinton TVWeek is reporting. On…
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 7:39 PM | Ken Shepherd
Interviewing 11-year-old Scholastic News reporter Jack Greenberg shortly before 3 p.m. EDT, MSNBC's David Shuster asked the junior journalist whether he had any problem being skeptical -- sorta…
August 26th, 2008 6:41 PM | Mark Finkelstein
To these ears, it sounded like a sophomoric line by, well, a sophomore seeking to impress classmates and perhaps his fuzzy-headed teacher. But MSNBC has proclaimed Mario Cuomo's call for a…
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 5:04 PM | Lyndsi Thomas
During the 11 a.m. EDT hour of Tuesday’s MSNBC “News Live,” host Dan Abrams interviewed Reuters Washington correspondent John Decker about Senator Obama’s campaign seeking a…
August 26th, 2008 1:57 PM | Matthew Sheffield
Despite the fact that MSNBC has positioned itself as the far-left cable network, regular Democrats continue to prefer CNN in surveys. Has this preference extended to how the party leaders treat…
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 26th, 2008 3:24 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
During MSNBC's live coverage of the Democratic National Convention, on Monday night, Newsweek's Howard Fineman pronounced that Michelle Obama, in her opening night speech, had "dug herself,…
August 26th, 2008 1:55 AM | Brent Baker
After Michelle Obama's Monday night speech at the Democratic National Convention, ABC and NBC mentioned her “for the first time in my adult lifetime I'm proud of my country” previous slap at the…
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 25th, 2008 5:43 PM | Paul Detrick
An opponent of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama’s health care proposal is a “bad person” in Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell’s book, even if that opponent is Sen. Hillary…
August 25th, 2008 5:08 PM | Lyndsi Thomas
Live from Denver, Colorado, on Monday, Brian Williams hosted the 1 p.m. hour of MSNBC's "News Live" and featured guests Gwen Ifill of PBS and Michele Norris of NPR to talk about…
August 24th, 2008 9:18 PM | Noel Sheppard
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell had some harsh words for members of the media today, especially those associated with the cable network MSNBC.
Speaking at a discussion put together by the…
August 24th, 2008 11:56 AM | Tom Blumer
The Friday evening version of Joe Biden's Wikipedia entry remains firmly ensconced in a Firefox tab on my desktop, so it can be compared to its current form as Obama-Biden's busy bees brush it up…
August 23rd, 2008 8:28 PM | Mike Bates
Today's Chicago Sun-Times features "It's time for Obama to prove his passion" by columnist Carol Marin. Amazingly, she finds an itsy bitsy problem with Barack Obama; he's just too darn cerebral. He…
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 11:11 AM | Noel Sheppard
As my colleague Mark Finkelstein reported Saturday, the racial slurs/gaffes of Sen. Joe Biden have already been discussed as "one of his strengths."
Despite this surprising segment on…