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June 28th, 2006 12:42 AM | Brent Baker
The White House criticism, of the New York Times over its story disclosing an ongoing anti-terrorism effort to track financial transactions, sent MSNBC's Keith Olbermann into a tizzy Tuesday night as…
June 27th, 2006 11:43 PM | Brent Baker
The disgust of conservatives directed at the New York Times after the newspaper on Friday again undermined national security, this time by taking the lead in exposing a program to monitor…
June 27th, 2006 4:00 PM | Tom Johnson
The first clause of one sentence in a Tuesday MSNBC.com blog entry: "Folks, we need to pause here and really examine just how derelict the MSM has become..."
That certainly sounds promising…
June 27th, 2006 8:51 AM | Mark Finkelstein
The Seer of MSNBC hath spoken: no matter how good the news might be now for President Bush, he will be in worse shape come the November elections.
That was Chris Matthews' reading of the…
June 24th, 2006 7:37 AM | Tim Graham
In the closing minutes of MSNBC's "Hardball" on Thursday night, guest host Norah O'Donnell was wrapping up with anti-war liberal Washington Post columnist…
June 22nd, 2006 10:24 PM | Brent Baker
Of the three broadcast network evening shows Thursday night, only the NBC Nightly News reported the late Wednesday afternoon revelation by Senator Rick Santorum and Congressman Peter Hoekstra, Chair…
June 22nd, 2006 12:10 PM | Matthew Sheffield
Reality often is stranger than fiction, the saying goes. An author writing the story of former anchor partners Dan Rather and Connie Chung's lives would never have had the temerity to have them…
June 19th, 2006 4:45 PM | Tom Johnson
It's not especially newsworthy that Connie Chung and Maury Povich's Saturday program on MSNBC, which debuted in January, has been canceled. Perhaps no more newsworthy, but definitely more amusing…
June 17th, 2006 5:06 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On MSNBC's Countdown show on Friday, substitute host Brian Unger featured a softball interview with Democratic Congressman John Murtha during which Unger queued up Murtha to attack the Bush…
June 16th, 2006 1:09 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On MSNBC's Countdown show on Thursday, substitute host Brian Unger suggested President Bush views American troops as "expendable" as he picked up on an erroneous report by the Washington Post that…
June 15th, 2006 10:05 AM | Noel Sheppard
On Wednesday, NewsBusters reported how MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann sent an e-mail message to a viewer in which he debased colleague Rita Cosby as well as his boss at the time. Lloyd Grove of the New…
June 14th, 2006 8:06 PM | Brent Baker
Using language which painted Karl Rove as a guilty party who succeeded at avoiding capture by authorities, not proving his innocence, in his NBC Nightly News story on Wednesday (also carried at the…
June 14th, 2006 2:35 PM | Noel Sheppard
Don Kaplan of the New York Post has a great column today about the failing cable station MSNBC, and quite appropriately asks why we need it (hat tip to TV Newser):
“‘It's really running…
June 14th, 2006 1:49 PM | Noel Sheppard
Apparently, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann doesn’t play well with others – color me shocked.
According to Lloyd Grove of the New York Daily News (hat tip to TV Newser), MSNBC’s Olbermann sent…
June 14th, 2006 1:33 PM | Tim Graham
Outgoing CBS Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer is a man who's never been ashamed to portray himself as not always the first guy to get the news -- or stay with the news as it happens. (Remember…
June 14th, 2006 9:46 AM | Noel Sheppard
In America, people are innocent until proven guilty, unless of course they are Republican.
No finer example of such legal relativism has occurred in recent memory than the case of President…
June 13th, 2006 10:24 PM | Brent Baker
MSNBC Countdown fill-in host Brian Unger on Tuesday night asked David Shuster about how “your sources seemed to indicate that Karl Rove would be indicted. What happened?" In fact, back on May 8, as…
June 13th, 2006 8:18 PM | Brent Baker
In his Tuesday World News Tonight story on how top White House adviser Karl Rove will not be indicted for perjury in the Valerie Plame case, ABC’s Jake Tapper, in a rare instance of one journalist…
June 13th, 2006 11:14 AM | Clay Waters
Great moments in political prognostication, from the May 8 edition of MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.”…
June 12th, 2006 5:11 PM | Matthew Sheffield
MSNBC surprised everyone Monday with its announcement that the struggling channel will now be headed by an executive tag team of "Today" chief Phil Griffin and one of its own show hosts, Dan…
June 11th, 2006 9:55 PM | Noel Sheppard
Howard Kurtz this morning invited National Review’s Jonah Goldberg, The New Republic’s Michelle Cottle, and Time’s Karen Tumulty on to discuss Ann Coulter’s new book, and her recent appearance on…
June 10th, 2006 3:22 PM | Tim Graham
On Friday, talk show host Laura Ingraham laughed at how MSNBC's Chris Matthews started demoting Zarqawi on Thursday night's "Hardball" as a minor-league threat, a "Triple-A" terrorist instead of a…
June 9th, 2006 11:50 AM | Greg Sheffield
If the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi were "good" news, it's hard to imagine how the media could report much worse for "bad" news in Iraq.
Pretend Pundit has a good roundup of media…
June 8th, 2006 3:36 PM | Scott Whitlock
The MRC has been following the media’s reaction to the death of terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al Zarqawi all day. Much of the coverage has been focused on downplaying the significance of the…
June 8th, 2006 1:57 PM | Matthew Sheffield
With Rick Kaplan out at MSNBC (fired, just as I surmised), TV news observers are wondering what's next for the third-place cabler.
Word has it that Phil Griffin, a veep at the network's…