How Very Amusing
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in Keith Olbermann | Miscellanea | Portions Of The Netroots Are Betrayed | Worst Person In The World — Comments (2) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
I see that Keith Olbermann is not a favorite of some people on the other side of the partisan divide. Of course, when Olbermann goes ballistic on Republicans, that's fine and good. It's just when he goes ballistic on Hillary Clinton that there is a problem.
Perhaps the moral of this story is not to cast your lot with someone who has a history of being exceedingly temperamental in the first place. It may be fun when the fire and brimstone are directed towards others--however unfair those attacks may be--but when it comes to dealing with people like Keith Olbermann, eventually even his allies get singed.
People at NBC must really miss Tim Russert. He would always provide interesting and dispassionate analysis in addition to evincing a pure and undiluted love for the political process. Now they are stuck with the likes of Olbermann and Chris Matthews--blowhards who substitute rage and fury for intellect and reason. I can't believe that the effect on the quality of NBC's political coverage will be anything less than utterly disastrous.
As for Olbermann's onetime allies who now feel betrayed by him, well, they deserve what they get.
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The stock of NBC/GE fell big time with the passing of Tim Russert. They were trying to sell off NBC, but now they have nothing to sell. Bad ratings, reporters who cling on to failures and an Olympics they'll manage to make horrible.
How ironic it would be if Obama and NBC fail at the same time.
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GE/NBC deserves whatever they get going forward. They've abandoned any semblance of broadcast standards with the garbage they produce on MSNBC. They've clearly allowed mediocrity and stupidity to be their calling card with the likes of Matthews and Olbermann. Worse, their senior managment, Jeff Immelt and Jeff Zucker, are derelict in their responsibilties to their audience and their shareholders by condoning the garbage spewed on a daily basis. Having said that, NBCU is faced with an incredibly difficult choice going forward. They have no one even close to Russert's credibility to take his place. So, they will do what all networks do, they'll reach for yesterdays talent, in this case Tom Brokaw, to carry them thru the election. Then they will have to decide if they can entrust Sunday mornings to somoen like David Gregory; or, do they risk their current talent pool, by going outside. Stay tuned.