EC-Bills Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 WP Article Longer version in the NYT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SD Jarhead Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Damn, they were so fair and balanced! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Damn, they were so fair and balanced! No they were not! By no means! Again... I have nothing aginst Fox, MSNBC, etc... Where does it say that media has to be balanced... I have noted that, really the last 80 or so years the media has moved to the middle. Historically in America, media outlets (mainly papers) were expected to take a side. I see nothing wrong with returning to our roots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UConn James Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Sad to see what has happened and what is going to happen to NBC and its subsidiaries w/o uncle Tim. Sad to say, PBS with Lehrer is the last bastion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Sad to see what has happened and what is going to happen to NBC and its subsidiaries w/o uncle Tim. Sad to say, PBS with Lehrer is the last bastion. Happened to what? Probably one of the main reasons we are hgoplessly mired in a two-party death grip? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheeseburger_in_paradise Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Probably what did them in, was when they put on those pink dresses and tried to disrupt the RNC during McCain's speech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PTS Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Whoa, does this mean that people didn't want to watch these two morons B word and moan about how supposedly horrible our country has become? Big shocker. That rant that Keith had a few months ago about GWB that liberals hailed him for was the worst and most biased piece of crap journalism I have ever seen. Say what you want about Fox News, but MSNBC made CNN look like a conservative network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsNYC Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 I'm telling you, when Russert died that network started to fall apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YellowLinesandArmadillos Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Nuts, I was just beginning to enjoy having a counter balance to Fux Ewes. Now I have to go back to watching the comedy channel. Darn, just when it was getting interesting. NBC lost the GOP a long time ago, now they have lost the Dems too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Hedd Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 WP ArticleLonger version in the NYT Would not be the 1st time media bowed to pressure from the right. big deal. Olbermans show is still a fixture @ 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YellowLinesandArmadillos Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Would not be the 1st time media bowed to pressure from the right. big deal. Olbermans show is still a fixture @ 8. Pure entertainment though and as many have said the same about Fox. I watch both to see both the funny and infuriating side of politics and am disappointed. Partisanship is good, it hones arguments, keeps politicians on their toes and provides wonderful surreal entertainment that you can't make up. Regardless of the veracity of the flag thing and my point of view, the whole incident is very entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steely Dan Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 That is as it should be. I prefer a balanced view at those types of things. Now if Fux Knus would have the class to follow suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Let's take it further, Obermann. How about ripping apart every image of the soldiers hoisting the flag at Iwo Jima? Don't you think we've had enough of that, too? And Gettysburg. Why do we still maintain a battlefield there? That war's been over for 150 years, for God's sake. Let's also get rid of all those damn memorials in Washington, D.C. My goodness -- someone might see them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molson_golden2002 Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Let's take it further, Obermann. How about ripping apart every image of the soldiers hoisting the flag at Iwo Jima? Don't you think we've had enough of that, too? And Gettysburg. Why do we still maintain a battlefield there? That war's been over for 150 years, for God's sake. Let's also get rid of all those damn memorials in Washington, D.C. My goodness -- someone might see them. What??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Didnt feel like starting a new thread. Guess you didnt see this then. http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=168143 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayFinkle Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 It was great to see Olbermann and Patrick teamed up again for Football Night in America last night. Good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Happened to what? Probably one of the main reasons we are hgoplessly mired in a two-party death grip? Uh, the "two-party depth grip" is a side effect of the political system. We will always consolidate to two parties unless we change the constitution. That rant that Keith had a few months ago about GWB that liberals hailed him for was the worst and most biased piece of crap journalism I have ever seen. Say what you want about Fox News, but MSNBC made CNN look like a conservative network. Journalism? Olbermann doesn't do Journalism, he does Entertainment. MSNBC is continuing the trend of merging the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 MSNBC is continuing the trend of merging the two. If MSNBC was merging journalism/entertainment, why did they give a show to Rachel Maddow. Or as I call her "Dude Looks Like A Lady" If they wanted to make journalism more entertaining, give a show to Jennifer Anniston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drnykterstein Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 I looked into it. MSNBC did not drop Olberman's show, Countdown, just he won't be going to any polical events to coment... as a comentator.. because that's what a commentator does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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