MSNBC: Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann 08/01/08

A look at MSNBC's nightly primetime news program and its segments.

This is one of the few examples of how biased/opinionated the media is here in the United States.

Note: Keith Olbermann, Bill Oreilly, Chris Matthews, Tucker, and Glenn Beck are commentators not news anchors.

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[dcarrollnyg]

no body watches this idiot.case closed

[fisnationstate]

Well not the majority of viewers. Oreilly still holds 2x as many viewers as Olbermann for that hour.

I suggest you look at tvbythenumbers(dot)com

[hanzo2001]

Nice portrayal/montage, I've never seen one of those. you kept in the funny parts but now I'm interested in the anthrax section.

Good "collage"(sp?). 4stars

[fisnationstate]

Thank you. If you'd like I can upload the anthrax segment. It'll take a while though; interent's currently slow.

[hanzo2001]

That'd be great, I'll follow you through the comments section

Thanks :D

[fisnationstate]

I've uploaded the segment you requested. It's the video response. :)

[KeithOlbermannTruth]

I remember this episode exactly, makes me miss Summer and pre-election, great video.

[landfritter]

Your right, about how he would respond to democrats becoming corrupted. Definitely right. But I do think there are a couple liberals who slip by un-persecuted, and maybe a couple conservatives who get some of the bad rap of the rest of their party, when they themselves might not deserve it.

[RedPandaBoy]

I will admit that Keith has a Political Agenda.. and that Agenda is to get the idiotic corruption out of our political system. He already implied in his special comments he doesn't care 'who' does it, as long as it stops.

Me being towers a liberal, just finds it unfair people are trying to put Keith in that same label. I'm pretty sure if the Democratic party became corrupted, he'll be made into a conservative.

[RedPandaBoy]

I used the word pre judgment. Not being impartial or objective is a result of having a judgment without the facts. Let's be realistic, if bias prevent someone from being unprejudiced then it's a form of prejudice.

The reason why republicans are on the worst the most.. isn't because Keith is for or against Conservatives ideas, but because in reality, republicans are doing the worst.

When a Democrat does something bad, he calls it out, but republicans been doing bad things for the past 8 years

[landfritter]

Wikipedia: Bias is a term used to describe a tendency or preference towards a particular perspective, ideology or result, especially when the tendency interferes with the ability to be impartial, unprejudiced, or objective.

I guess it's not really that he's prejudiced (as you and the definition suggest a bias means) as much the tone of the reporting. The worst person's segment almost always goes to conservatives. In general he just goes easier on liberals. But your right, he still reports facts.

[RedPandaBoy]

But bias is based on a form of prejudice -- or in other words pre judgement. Everything he reports is based on facts, while O'reilly tries to opinionated the news and misrepresents it (the daily kos, etc etc etc).

He calls particular republicans bad not because it's an opinion, but because they have been doing bad things.

If he has a bias, then please explain 'what is that bias'

[landfritter]

I honestly think that his bias was actually necessary for an anchor; it was MSNBC's way to balance out all that time Tucker Carlson was their anchor. I also think his bias was justified by his accepting of it. I've heard comparisons of Olbermann to O'Reilly, in that their both biased towards opposite ends, but I think the difference is that O'Reilly claims an objective viewpoint. He publicly denies a bias.

[landfritter]

I'm somewhat of a fan, personally I like Rachel Maddow better, then Chris Matthews, then Keith. I was more just responding to some of the other comments that were saying he's too biased to be an anchor.