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The host of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann has posted a few blog posts at the left-wing site, Daily Kos. I've found a few right-wing sites that are not happy with this development:
[Excerpt from TVNewser]
Some in the blogosphere have raised questions about Olbermann's role at the site, which describes itself as "a Democratic blog, a partisan blog." Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters writes, "Consider again the media firestorm that would come from (Brit) Hume or (Chris) Wallace doing the same thing at a conservative website. Think such a demonstration of rightwing bias and partisanship would raise a few eyebrows?"
Now, far be it for me to defend Keith Obermann, as I'm sure he's well equipped to do so for himself. But this sort of cries out for a response. Because they've forgotten one very prominent news personality. Tony Snow, late of FOX "News," and later promoted to White House Press Secretary, was a frequent writer on über-right-wing FreeRepublic. And interestingly, his posts were "scrubbed" from the site after he got the White House gig.
Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes, Mort Kondrake, George Will and many other "news" personalities also write political opinion pieces. Why not Olbermann?
Lamentable as it might be, the cable news business often blurs the lines between news, entertainment, punditry, politics and more. There's a reason that I refer to FOX "News" using the quotes. Countdown is on a news network, but is something of a hybrid show. Politically, it is no more biased than just about anything on FOX, but it does have a different format than most shows. If I had to categorize it, I'd call it a news and information commentary show, from a left-wing (or perhaps more accurately, non-right-wing) perspective.
Seriously people, look at just about any personality-driven show on any of the cable news channels. Check out Glenn Beck, Nancy Grace, Tucker Carlson, Lou Dobbs. Most of them are not straight-ahead news shows, and most show some sort of bias. That may be a sad state of affairs, but it is the truth.
More right-wing irritability at: NewsBusters
[Excerpt from TVNewser]
Some in the blogosphere have raised questions about Olbermann's role at the site, which describes itself as "a Democratic blog, a partisan blog." Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters writes, "Consider again the media firestorm that would come from (Brit) Hume or (Chris) Wallace doing the same thing at a conservative website. Think such a demonstration of rightwing bias and partisanship would raise a few eyebrows?"
Now, far be it for me to defend Keith Obermann, as I'm sure he's well equipped to do so for himself. But this sort of cries out for a response. Because they've forgotten one very prominent news personality. Tony Snow, late of FOX "News," and later promoted to White House Press Secretary, was a frequent writer on über-right-wing FreeRepublic. And interestingly, his posts were "scrubbed" from the site after he got the White House gig.
Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes, Mort Kondrake, George Will and many other "news" personalities also write political opinion pieces. Why not Olbermann?
Lamentable as it might be, the cable news business often blurs the lines between news, entertainment, punditry, politics and more. There's a reason that I refer to FOX "News" using the quotes. Countdown is on a news network, but is something of a hybrid show. Politically, it is no more biased than just about anything on FOX, but it does have a different format than most shows. If I had to categorize it, I'd call it a news and information commentary show, from a left-wing (or perhaps more accurately, non-right-wing) perspective.
Seriously people, look at just about any personality-driven show on any of the cable news channels. Check out Glenn Beck, Nancy Grace, Tucker Carlson, Lou Dobbs. Most of them are not straight-ahead news shows, and most show some sort of bias. That may be a sad state of affairs, but it is the truth.
More right-wing irritability at: NewsBusters
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