Olbermann on FBN: Update 3…
It’s the story that refuses to die! Mulitchannel News’ Steve Donohue blogs about Keith Olbermann’s WPITW segment last Friday and says Olbermann got it wrong. (via TVNewser)
“They [Fox] would kill for Cramer’s ratings,” Olbermann said in the “Worst Person” segment. “Oh, and by the way,” Olbermann added, “Alexis Glick, Liz Claman and Neil Cavuto – the heart of a Fox Business machine being watched by literally dozens of investors – each of them dropped by NBC and CNBC.”
That’s where Olbermann got it wrong. Cavuto, one of the first employees hired at Fox News in 1996, had the highest rated program (Market Wrap) on CNBC before he jumped ship to Fox along with dozens of other NBC News staffers. That’s how The Washington Post reported it when Cavuto joined Fox in September 1996.
This is why I grew tired of Countdown. Olbermann’s all-consuming contempt for all things FOX will be his undoing. Sadly since his ratings keep rising he will only be encouraged to do this more.
Comment by Obama in 08! — December 6, 2007 @ 4:03 pm
KO flat out lying is not a story!!
Comment by Jim — December 6, 2007 @ 4:04 pm
Poor KO. He makes Rosie O’Donnell seem sane and serene.
Instead of encouraging him, the suits at MSNBC should be giving him lots of time off in a quiet room.
Comment by Amused — December 6, 2007 @ 4:05 pm
Blabberman is just dumb and stubborn, even when the facts contradict him. Neil and company jumped aboard Fox because NBC does not believe in excellence. It believes in mediocrity, and the Blabberman is the best example.
Comment by RGL — December 6, 2007 @ 4:22 pm
Is it any wonder at all that Fox is expanding with new channels and NBC News is cutting staff & facilities continually?
What is somewhat troubling here is not that Keith Olbersmear got yet another story completely wrong,
but how often he gets away with even greater distortions.
Just force yourself to watch an episode of “Countdown”
{don’t worry…antacids are much better than in the past}
and pay careful attention to the misleading, slanted editing used when stealing Fox material and using it to get the paltry ratings they finally managed to achieve; try fact-checking the blantantly absurb lies reported as “facts”; then, use your objectivity in assessing the “professional demeanor” of the host…why is it I
always think of “Special Olympics” when I stumble
across a “Special Comment”??? {No offense to the handicapped meant here…the offense is directed
squarely at OlberStiff}
Comment by Nick D. — December 6, 2007 @ 4:36 pm
Olbermann lying? I’m shocked. Shocked, I say. #2 Jim is right. This isn’t a story. It’s more douchebaggery from the king of it.
Comment by bigred — December 6, 2007 @ 4:47 pm
And he is the best that MSNBC has to offer?
Comment by Tom p — December 6, 2007 @ 5:21 pm
#1 - I totally agree. Olbermann is consumed with his contempt for all things Fox and it has gotten really old.
I’ll check out Countdown every now and then, but only in small bites because he has become a broken record….and he has become a parody of himself as he bashes O’Reilly and Fox for the exact same thing he now does night after night.
The irony with MSNBC is that they will cut Tucker Carlson loose - a guy who has strong opinions but can back them up and doesn’t need to bend the truth/lie to do so. I was glad when MSNBC took “Beat the Press” away from his show because that wasn’t his thing - bashing other networks for mistakes. Too bad it looks like they will let a guy who knows something about politics go and keep Olbermann.
Comment by FishOil — December 6, 2007 @ 5:34 pm
Bill regularly trades facts for stuff he pulls out of thin air, so I have no problem when others do the same. These aren’t news programs, they’re entertainment shows. They may as well have ice skates on and dance with Marie Osmond.
Comment by RC — December 6, 2007 @ 6:01 pm
“Bill regularly trades facts for stuff he pulls out of thin air, so I have no problem when others do the same.” by RC
That has to be one of the dumbest statements I’ve heard in a long time. So you don’t mind being lied and spun to. Good Grief.
Comment by Obama in 08! — December 6, 2007 @ 6:13 pm
fbn can now thank ko
since no one has been talking about fbn he ends up
giving them pr, wheter if it is good or bad now this is being talked about
somone should tell keith to stop giving people publisity during his hour of i cant really tell what it is,
what a nutbar
Comment by chris — December 6, 2007 @ 6:24 pm
Yes, it’s a small thing, but I get a kick out of how Olbermann is finally being nitpicked by somebody outside of newsbusters. KO has used mediamatters for years to nitpick every little word and statement others make, so I wonder how he will handle having it done to him.
Comment by eddiebear — December 6, 2007 @ 6:27 pm
How does KO know what their ratings actually are? I thought Neilson doesn’t do ratings for FBN because they aren’t in a certain amount of homes.
Comment by jerziegrl — December 6, 2007 @ 6:52 pm