After a successful run on MSNBC that was followed by a debacle at Current TV, Keith Olbermann might be shifting from politics and back to his original roots as a sports commentator. According to The Daily News, this move might
National Journal takes a stab at explaining MSNBC’s terrible ratings. Most of the potential explanations have been examined before including progressive disinterest and a poor lineup: Critics also suggest that MSNBC no longer has much diversity in the evenings. It’s
Ex-MSNBC employee David Shuster described his former network as a “mouthpiece for the [Obama] administration” in a National Journal article looking at the cable network’s very real ratings crisis. The left-wing Schuster says, “When you’re too predictably a mouthpiece for
Andrea Mitchell appearing on MSNBC and declaring John McCain “heroic” over his position supporting immigration reform is not out of character for her. Nor is it odd that Mitchell would blast GOP foes of immigration reform and say they “ought
Maybe the powers that be at CNN are concerned that race-baiting MSNBC is getting all the lefty political cred by injecting a hostile racial narrative into every report on the Zimmerman murder trial in Sanford, FL. CNN doesn’t have the
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow received a “Pants On Fire” rating from the PolitiFact Ohio Truth-O-Meter for her statement on her June 28 show in which she said that an Ohio budget item, later signed into law by Gov. John Kasich (R), requires
The UK Guardian has enjoyed a traffic spike from its sensationalist story about globetrotting intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, spun as part of the anti-military narrative of leftist journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. The reason for the traffic spike is clear:
MSNBC pundit Michael Eric Dyson appeared on the Martin Bashir Show Tuesday and stoked racial unrest by claiming that, if George Zimmerman is acquitted, it sends the message that “the children of poor and people of color in this country do not have the
Mika Brzezinski: How are you different than you were five, six years ago? What has changed, personally, of who you are? Eliot Spitzer: A lot of pain. A lot of pain. Mika: That’s it? Spitzer: Yeah, you got through that
It looks as though while I was on vacation last week a few media critics were complaining about CNN’s decision to cover the Zimmerman trial over the fall of Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi. Fair enough. What I reject, however, are
Left-wing media critic Jeff Cohen has been all over cable news as a contributor, but for a time he worked as a senior producer for MSNBC. Monday, in the wake of the NSA spying scandal, Cohen lashed out at his
Left and Right seem to agree that the trial of George Zimmerman, the Florida man on trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin, has thus far been a debacle for the prosecution and therefore a media that cynically hyped a
When it comes to breaking news on stories like Saturday’s tragic Asiana jet crash at San Francisco airport, it’s becoming increasingly clear that we’ve moved into a new era for journalism. A few years ago, the only real option for
Keith Olbermann is being accused of hammering his former protegé Rachel Maddow on Twitter after responding to a tweet about the cable network’s ratings slump. Olbermann responded with “This is sarcasm, to the following tweet: Very, Very impressive #ratings
Timing is everything. Chris Hayes used his barely-watched primetime MSNBC show on Monday night to accuse congressional Republicans of wanting people to die in the streets without any health care merely because they expressed concerns over the nightmare of implementing
Actor George Takei of Star Trek fame appeared on MSNBC over the weekend to discuss the recent Supreme Court decision on the Defense of Marriage Act. Takei, who is gay, recited a critical part of the Pledge of Allegiance to
As huge protests against the Muslim Brotherhood-backed government in Egypt have gone on for several days, the crowds have now swelled to an estimated 17,000,000. That’s ‘Seventeen Million’, for those of you in Rio Linda. If true, these reports
NBC host David Gregory: “Research actually shows that in broken homes, it hurts the children, which I think most people would say that would be true of same-sex couples or heterosexual couples. We don’t really know, do we? But we
I like S.E. Cupp. I think she’s smart, and funny and she’s a great new face for Republicans or Libertarians or whatever camp she feels most comfortable in these days, I’m not sure. She embodies a funny and irreverent perspective that was
“I wonder how long real journalists from NBC like Todd are going to let themselves be debased this way by their association with MSNBC.” That is not me asking that rhetorical question; that is the Baltimore Sun’s media writer David
CNN announced Wednesday that its political debate show “Crossfire,” which previously ran from 1982 to 2005, will return this fall with hosts SE Cupp, Newt Gingrich, Van Jones, and Stephanie Cutter. The other news here is that Cupp, who
TMZ cornered MSNBC’s Al Sharpton and asked for his take on the Paula Deen story. Deen, who was fired from Food Network after revelations that she admitted in a deposition that in the past she had used the “N-word,” is
After Obama’s big climate speech – that MSNBC cut away from after only 41 seconds! – West Virginia’s Senator Joe Manchin (D) took to Twitter to express shock at the fact he has just now realized President Barack Obama is
Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act forced states that had poor minority turnout numbers fifty years ago to get Justice Department approval for all election-law decisions. Not only was this section of the law outdated, it had become particularly
After 15 years of no increase in global temperatures — which decimates a huge majority of Climate Change models — our anti-science president took to the stump today for what was promised as a major speech on what he was
