Ribbing MSNBC…
Ed Bark of the Dallas Morning News turns in a snarky piece on MSNBC. Note to Ed: MSNBC’s ratings were actually pretty decent for them last week…
MSNBC, cable’s More Silly News network, had a night for the ages last week.
The odds that you watched were longer than Bob Costas’ chances in a slam-dunk contest with Shaq. Nielsen Media Research says that the NBC-owned channel’s average national prime-time audience amounted to – if that’s the word – fewer than 450,000 viewers last year.
That’s what TV critics are for, though. We’re ever-vigilant in search of stuff that had to be seen to be believed. Wednesday offered a two-bagger courtesy of Countdown With Keith Olbermann and Live and Direct With Rita Cosby.
Near the end of Countdown, a blaring MSNBC promo promised juicy tales of American Idol scandals on Live and Direct. “THE STORIES THEIR PRODUCERS DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW” – that was the hook.
Ed has nailed the ignoble Olbermann and the clueless Cosby.
These two painted themselves into a corner.
Comment by Cara — February 27, 2006 @ 6:31 pm
Cara…absurd. This guy is a freaking idiot if he can’t tell the two of them apart. Olbermann…sublime. Cosby…ridiculous.
Comment by tanne — February 28, 2006 @ 7:23 am
Ed Bark is no idiot; he nailed it.
Comment by anonymous — February 28, 2006 @ 10:23 am