January 23, 2011 - 4:14 pm
What’s wrong at MSNBC? Near as I can tell from this story in Politico, it’s Glenn Beck. Reporter Keach Hagey says Keith Olbemann’s departure was probably a banal “dissolution of an unhappy employee-employer relationship. So far, so good. But if that’s the case, how can Hagey possibly go on to argue that it “reveals the problematic structure of the current incarnation of cable news,” including “outsized personalities” like Glenn Beck.
Surely, a banal event reveals nothing other than its own banality. But, hey, “Glenn Beck” results almost certainly generate a lot more traffic than “Keith Olbermann is a self-involved jerk.”
I guess truth in reporting went out with the dinosaurs.
For the MSM, advancing the narrative is far important that objectivity.
See, the JournOList media are still trying this trick: We’ll drop MSNBC if you guys drop Fox and Beck. This incarnation of the ruse involves comparing Olbermann to Beck. Problem is that Beck has phenomenal ratings and a gigantic audience while Olbermann… um, not so much.
Sorry JournOLists, caught again.
PS – man, I can’t wait to hear Beck comment on this tomorrow morning…
The old media still don’t get it that America is a center-right nation, uninformed pre-Fox and the internet. It’s pathetic to see their rants, as their audience shrinks. It might be impossible for talking heads with big egos to be objective, but what about the corporations who own them? Eventually red ink will drown the sponsors of such foolishness.
Who would have ever thought that history could be the focus of a wildly popular TV show? Beck is a history teacher and an investigative journalist, but what are his detractors?