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Posted on 01/11/2005 1:41:07 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
bah who cares what olhberman thinks or says
Not only that (and it was a great point you made!), but John Kerry never personally addressed the specifics of the Swift Boat Ads. So how does Keith Olbermann know that these ads were "full of distortions?" The answer is, he doesn't.
Media bias is very easy to expose; just substitute the name of one of their beloved liberals in place of the Republican or conservative they are bashing and see if such a story would ever be reported.
Not good for the credibility of our nation in front of the world. A lie, is worsened when justified.
Ops4 God BLess America!
LOL, sure they are...in his tinfoil hat universe! The guy is totally off his rocker, imo.
tried watching him since I stopped watchng OReily, no joy there. The guy is just a looney.
Who is Olbermann and what's this MSNBC you're mentioning?
:-{/
Fifteen years ago I watched about two minutes of the clown when he was a second rate sportsdude ~ he was a goof then and remains so now.
Keith has a great future ahead of him at Err America (it's like internet radio, but not as popular).
Well of course, olberman is the patron saint of the nutcases, the DUmmies.
I remember something about Richard Thornburgh not paying his consultants and stuff, I think Rove was one of them.
A report detailing "serious and fundamental deficiencies" in a CBS News report of a disputed story involving President Bush's National Guard service has already caused damage to third-place CBS "Evening News" ratings, driving down its appeal to advertisers.
For nearly a decade, Rather's "Evening News" has languished in third place in the ratings, following ABC and NBC, whose "Nightly News" broadcast typically has been the top-rated, helmed by Tom Brokaw until he stepped down last year. In the weeks following the Sept. 8 report, ratings for CBS's evening newscast dipped and then flattened out, said Leslie Moonves, Viacom co-president.
The drop in ratings meant that CBS "Evening News" and other CBS News programs had to give advertisers more commercial time to make up for lost audience numbers that are guaranteed in contracts, said John Rash, a television advertising buyer with Campbell Mithun. And it couldn't have come at a worse time, Rash said.
"The irony is the report aired on '60 Minutes II,' and yet with Dan Rather being the public personification of the problem, its effect has been most noticeable on the 'CBS Evening News,' " Rash said. "They have not been able to regain much traction and most importantly have lost a key opportunity to erode NBC's ratings lead in the wake of Tom Brokaw's departure."
For the last week of 2004, NBC's "Nightly News" was seen in an average of 8.4 million households, with ABC's "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings" second at 7.7 million households and CBS's "Evening News" at 6 million households, according to Nielsen Media Research.
A 30-second ad on a network evening news broadcast typically costs about $50,000, one-tenth of what a 30-second commercial can go for on a top-rated entertainment program, such as CBS's "CSI."
"The [overall] economic hit was not a great one," Moonves said. " 'The Early Show' and the news magazines make more money than the evening news."
Ad revenue from the "Evening News" accounts for only about 10 percent of the total revenue of the CBS News division, Moonves said.
"Look Bernie, of course there's a liberal bias in the news. All the networks tilt left." -- CBS News President ANDREW HEYWARD, to six-time Emmy award winner Bernie Goldberg, quoted HERE.
Just as with the re-election of President Bush, once again, my faith in the common-sense and clarity of thought of the American people is coming through. CBS's ratings are tanking. They can try to spin (or nuance :-))it all they want, but people know dishonesty when they see it, and are voting with their feet, as they say. They know a sacred trust has been broken, and are rejecting the source now as unreliable. I just hope when they look elsewhere on the MSM, they'll see the same thing, and do the same thing.
If I were him, I will kill myself due to this utter failure.
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