Papa Mike's Blog

Not sure its going to make a bit of difference. Olbermann gets one million viewers a night so he has become the face of MSNBC (Of course O’Reilly gets over three million, but who’s counting?) and being the face of the network the bigwigs thought turning the MSNBC ship way to the left would be a good idea.

They were wrong:

    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 channel’s 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 Gregorywould 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 channel’s perceived shift to the political left.

While the left loves to criticize Fox News for being a conservative bastion, the network knows how to do it. Real news get the real anchors like Brit Hume and Chris Wallace. Meanwhile the opinion segments get the pundits like Hannity and O’Reilly (No idea why people think of him as conservative). You never see those two hosting a political convention. But MSNBC, in all their wisdom, thought it would be a good to have these yahoo’s pretend to be unbiased while covering the conventions. Read the rest of this entry »