These may not seem like the biggest potential audience in the world, but there might be more of them than some people think.

Let’s analyze this move, not spinning like some liberals or conservatives. Repeating the show at 9am is an interesting move. Who would be watching? Not the 25-54 demo, who are most likely working. Not the college kids who may be still sleeping at that hour, or some maybe in class at that time. Definitely not high schoolers or younger for obvious reason. That left with the AARP folks. I remember a big demo for the O’Reilly Factor is the elder folks, so I think it’s what they’re trying to get viewers away from FNC. We’ll find out would that work real soon.

Well, I won’t say it! LOL!

Thing is, if it were a democratic administration they would BOTH go after them. Stewart will nail anyone who deserves it. The cult takes that to mean he is all liberal all the time when if fact we have the most decepetive and secretive administration in the nation’s history headed by a national security risk who is also a head clucking clown. Easy mark. Do good for the country and snipe at an easy mark clown.

Face it, outside of Olberman and a comedy show you have propaganda everywhere. Do you think it was just an accident that everyone left off the fact that Gov. Ryan was another corrupt republican?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200604180003

Really is silly watching anyone complain about anything resembling a liberal view getting more air time. Only a cultee would find a problem with it. No, if you aren’t spewing the 24/7 Pravda Cult Fox Network “News” the right will moan and moan.

Sounds like MSNBC may be recreating America’s Talking, which was its predecessor network during the mid 1990s. It also flopped!

Look I’m not giving a pass to HLN for what its doing with talk shows. But even HLN starts out the morning with hard news. I’ve heard all the reasons for Imus being on (affiliate revolt at NBC, etc). Imus holds his own in the ratings and he gets high profile guests (but rarely breaks news on his show) but if it wasn’t for NBC’s affiliates do you really think he’d still be on the air at MSNBC given how shabbily he treats the network?

I don’t see how MSNBC can continue to call itself a cable news channel if it keeps cutting back on NEWS during the week the way it has been. Just in the past six months…

1. MSNBC dropped two hours of hard news to double shift Hardball and The Abrams Report.
2. Installed a wheel format from 12-4 which started out positively awful. It has loosened up a bit the past couple of weeks and gotten a tad better but it’s still a far cry from what you get on FNC or CNN.
3. Cuts an hour of news in the morning by adding a Countdown re-run.

Does anyone seriously think that MSNBC would be making these moves if it wasn’t under serious budgetary pressures? I don’t. It runs counter to how you run a cable news channel. Tape of Countdown from the previous night is going to be hit and miss in terms of how current it is. And on Mondays, after a three day layoff since Friday, it’ll be positively stale.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/04/03/BL2006040300434.html

“While his main guests are journalists, he sometimes interviews Democratic lawmakers but almost never brings on Republicans or conservatives, except for MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan. “There are not a lot of conservative guests who are happy to be on the show,” Olbermann admits.”

Also, please note that Pat Buchanan split from the Republican party 6 years ago, and is firmly against the war in Iraq.

That was easy.

Link please? Until then, please be advised that Mr. Olbermann has had Pat Buchanon, Tucker Carlson, Joe Tacopina (who admitted he liked Bush on Imus), and a protester near Camp Casey protesting against Cindy Sheehan. What Mr. Olbermann doesn’t like is two guests with opposing views, increasing the likelihood of mindless bickering that is seen far too often. On the few occasions this double booking has occured, Mr. Olbermann did warn the guests, equally, prior to interviewing to maintain civility.

I was not aware of any change of Imus’s opinion of Mr. Olbermann. Mr. Olbermann did thank Imus during his last “Big Show” in 1998, so I assumed things were cordial. Of course, things change. References would be appreciated.

I was aware that Imus has significant problems with Contessa Brewer and Tucker Carlson, however any other show-based rumblings would be something that I’d have to consider the possibility of simple schtick for entertainment. I believe Tweety has been on Imus’s show lately without incident.

In any event, I’m sure Imus has been around long enough to be a team player when mutual benefit can be realized (an IITM ad during Countdown may help with balance) while realizing Mr. Olbermann is hardly a threat to his TV simulcast. His radio broadcast, eminating from Viacom, would be unaffected, obviously.

Pull your head out.

You can rant all you want about Grace, but her show is labeled as a crime talk show and that’s what it is. Paula Zahn is labeled as a straight news program and it seems to make every effort to be balanced, I can’t think of an occasion where Zahn has injected her own opinion. Yet Olbermann does so on a nightly basis, and has even admitted to only booking guests that have liberal views because he “doesn’t want to argue.”

If you want to watch that kind of program, feel free. Few other people in the United States are.

BTW–”The Truth”: Are you out of your mind? Imus hates Olbermann and most of the rest of the MSNBC primeline up and makes frequent jokes about them/swipes against them. Not only do I not think Imus wouldn’t go along with the notion of having segments of other’s shows played in his timeslot, I don’t think the talent themselves would be too happy about it given Imus’s frequent slams at them.

And to Benllv I say this: “biased” programming? That’s a joke right? I guess Fox’s programming is “fair and balanced” in your book right? Thanks for the laugh my friend. It’s always amusing to get a snapshot of the mind of the average Fox viewer.

This could also ward off the typical Faux News viewers, the ones who have already allowed their intelligence to meet the puree button, and allow MSNBC to pursue a more enlightened viewership.

To replay Keith Olbermann’s biased opinion program that he calls ‘news’ further undermines MSNBC’s credibility as a cable news network.