NYTimes: MSNBC Takes Incendiary Hosts From Anchor Seat

NYTimes also has the story posted earlier at Drudge.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/business/media/08msnbc.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=business


By BRIAN STELTER
Published: September 7, 2008
MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channel’s coverage of the election.<snip>

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...

Much more at link above

Why they pulled Matthews I have no idea... He hit each side pretty hard, and he hit the liberal side harder IMHO...

depending on who is up to bat. LOL

I didn't see the coverage the past few weeks, but from what I've read at DU it seemed like the chaos would have been GOOD for their ratings. More here than meets the eye...

beyond reason.... he's never shown any liberal "bias" so to speak, so what gives?

and replace them Lou Reed and LaToya Jackson, well, that was a real shock for me.

But no one can replace Tweety. Not even the ever interesting LaToya.

They could run it late at night and let him pretty much say what he wants.

I'd tune in.


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Either CBS or CNN for me now, I guess.

We know Keith does, but hopefully Tweety blames the McCain campaign and their media bashing for his banishment and gets pissed.

radical change in tone. He's maneuvered for the open Tim Russert Sellout slot on Meet the Press by implicitly assuring GE bosses that David Gregory will help them keep their tens of billions in Republican tax breaks.

This is distressing - I had high hopes that MSNBC was becoming "ours".

Grrrr. I sent an email to MSNBC. I was polite yet firm. I do not like Tweety the tap dancer either. He makes me sleepy. All this is the "military industrial complex" the same one Ike Eisenhower warned people about in 61 during his last speech to the nation.

I'm one of those people that believes that the CIA/military killed Jfk, Rfk, King etc and kept us in wars: Vietnam, Cold war, Gulf war, they were glad to go to Afganastan, War in Iraq, and maybe coming soon the "INVASION OF IRAN" STARRING JOHN MCcAIN AND SARAH PALIN. All these wars = big proffits for big big corperation and elected offials with sticky money grabbing hands. Big oil and White House + Pentagon are like so so close me thinks. Oil prices + war = Republicans and greedy old white guys who run this country smiling and spending.

If you think the right are trying to steal the election you might be correct. In the 1960s the CIA had bullied and pressed media to push the Vietnam war and be pro cold war. Its all documented on Wikipedia the last time I checked.

The educational system being broken is another tool of the right wing old man establishments's master plan. Keep people dumb. Dumb and low taxed so they do not want to question the government or the idiots that are in it's high offices: "paging Mr Bush and Mr. Cheney, and Mr. McSame".

There is also a massive domestic spy program keeping electronic tabs on 20 million Americans. Also the stuff Bush and cronies cooked up to "protect" us all. Wiretapping and spying at will by an act of Congress.