Olbermann and Matthews dismissed as election anchors, page 1
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Topic started on 7-9-2008 @ 09:19 PM by centurion1211
We all know how Drudge often reports the news before the MSM picks it up, beginning with his scoop of the Monica Lewinsky Story. Here is another scoop from Drudge on the backlash against Olbermann and Matthews for their extreme liberal bias supposedly disguised as mainstream news reporting.

Anyway, here is the article:

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After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent network NBC, the channel decided over the weekend that the NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host David Gregory would anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night. Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews will remain as analysts during the coverage.

The change — which comes in the home stretch of the long election cycle — is a direct result of tensions associated with the channel’s perceived shift to the political left.

“The most disappointing shift is to see the partisan attitude move from prime time into what’s supposed to be straight news programming,” said Davidson Goldin, formerly the editorial director of MSNBC and a co-founder of the reputation management firm DolceGoldin.


I always read/watched MSNBC to get the other side's viewpoints. Guess I'll have to rely on the NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post and CNN for that from now on.

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reply posted on 7-9-2008 @ 09:32 PM by pavil
reply to post by jetxnet


If I am not mistaken, MS is pretty much out of the picture at MSNBC except for the name. MS and NBC about 2 years ago discussed the parting on good terms, if memory serves me right.


reply posted on 7-9-2008 @ 09:35 PM by centurion1211
reply to post by infolurker


I think the end for these two extreme lefties posing as journalists was their recent on air fighting with Joe Scarborough. That's when Olberman broke in over top of what Scarborough was trying to say and said, "Jesus, Joe, why don't you get a shovel ..." (whatever that was supposed to mean).

Isn't that grounds for Webster's Dictionary to place Olberman's picture next to the phrase "pot calling the kettle black"? Maybe next to the word "hypocrite" would be more appropriate.



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reply posted on 7-9-2008 @ 10:37 PM by pavil
reply to post by jetxnet


I stand corrected. I must have misunderstood the bit I was watching on it. I thought MS had moved to basically a "silent partner" kinda role.



reply posted on 7-9-2008 @ 10:47 PM by Unit541
reply to post by centurion1211


MSNBC is certainly a lot less biased than Fox. While the bias exists, it's nowhere near the right leaning bias of Fox. Can anyone come up with anything Olberman has reported, or even any of his commentary that is not based entirely on fact? Has he ever reported is opinion as factual News ala Bill O'Reilly?

As I see it, with Matthews and Olberman, the coverage was about as "fair and balanced" as it gets. They were certainly no farther to the left than the other networks are to the right. While it would be nice to live in a perfect world where every network shot it down the middle and let the viewers form opinions, sadly this is not the world we live in. Instead, far right, or far left commentators provide the opinions, the people simply tune into the channel that provides the particular flavor of BS that a particular viewer is capable of swallowing. My solution to this issue is to turn off the television. It's the only way there's anything "fair" and "balanced" on the damn thing.
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