Posted on 09/07/2008 6:33:59 PM PDT by flyfree
MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channels coverage of the election.
That experiment appears to be over.
After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent network NBC, the channel decided over the weekend that the NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host David Gregory would anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night. Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews will remain as analysts during the coverage.
The change which comes in the home stretch of the long election cycle is a direct result of tensions associated with the channels perceived shift to the political left.
The most disappointing shift is to see the partisan attitude move from prime time into whats supposed to be straight news programming, said Davidson Goldin, formerly the editorial director of MSNBC and a co-founder of the reputation management firm DolceGoldin.
(Excerpt) Read more at drudgereport.com ...
Phonecalls to MSLSD, threatening boycotts, much squealing and gnashing of teeth, along with the obligatory F-bombs, etc. They are NOT happy.
it's hilarious to read.
Reality can be a bi***, eh?
Especially when you’re not used to dealing with that sort of thing, and your only option is a tantrum.
(Our youngest granddaughter has already passed that stage, and she won’t be two until November.)
Did you see this?
Tankin Ratings.
Somebody at MSNBC finally woke up.
LOL! It’s a testament to the leftist stink of Chrissy and Keithy that David Gregory IS an upgrade.
Good riddance. These two hacks have been spewing their idiocy and left-wing hatred for too long. Oh what will the Kossacks do? Wait for a Olbermann diary on Kos, crying about the unfair treatment, etc. What a despicable excuse for a journalist. Hooray to NBC for this move.
BWaHahahaaaa!!!!!!!!! Maybe I shall open the Pool Lounge also tonight!!
You know, when you have to put French-speaking, snot-nosed lefty David Gregory in the chair to address anti-Republican bias of your other hosts, you are in deep doo-doo.
Neither one of these hacks should have ever been in an anchor chair, they can be the political commentators all they like but thats editorial, they had no business in the anchors spot.
I guess the American people wanted news reporters and not cheerleaders ....
David Gregory? I think he’s just as bad as Olbermann and Matthews. MSNBC is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic...
To bad.
If they had left these two maggot infected Snobami mediots in the anchor positions, they might have destroyed MSNBC and NBC even faster.
We all need to protest this violation of Overbite’s first amendment rights.
We, as conservatives, should BEG to have him on the air.
(After all, his coverage is HELPING our polling like nothing else!)
That’s why they make safety scissors.
Aljazeera has less bias.
Gregory is also a total liberal. The difference is that he attempts to hide it whereas OlberFuhrer and Hissy Chrissy do not.
Also, CNN’s Blitzer also went off on the GOP for having a 911 tribute. Where is the outrage?
When I watched Olbermann say that I was furious. Still am.
They’re just rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.
I had to wake up my First Wife at 10 last night to tell her this. I hope PMSNBC has vaccinated everyone against rabies that comes in contact with these rabid snakes...
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