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MSNBC TAKES INCENDIARY HOSTS FROM ANCHOR SEAT... DEVELOPING...
Drudge ^

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 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 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 channel’s perceived shift to the political left.

“The most disappointing shift is to see the partisan attitude move from prime time into what’s 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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008debates; davidgregory; drudge; gregory; matthews; mediabias; msnbc; nbcnews; olbermann; schadenfreude
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To: flyfree

Spitboy just Crapped his pants.

Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops


201 posted on 09/07/2008 7:37:28 PM PDT by bray (Drill Congress!!)
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To: flyfree

and the RATS, take another one in the.................................HA ha!!!

202 posted on 09/07/2008 7:37:37 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - McCain/Palin'08 = http://www.johnmccain.com/)
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To: ConservativeMan55

OK...maybe I’ll watch then. I though Olbermann was in the booth.


203 posted on 09/07/2008 7:38:27 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Fire mission!)
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To: LibertyRocks

MS-NBC convention driver: Crowd questions rigged

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/06/ms-nbc-convention-driver-crowd-questions-rigged/


204 posted on 09/07/2008 7:38:29 PM PDT by roses of sharon (READ MY LIPSTICK!)
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To: Chode

205 posted on 09/07/2008 7:39:39 PM PDT by icwhatudo (If my brother-n-law threatened to kill my father-I'd tell his boss too (Just like Palin did))
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To: JavaJumpy

That line to DU cracks me up! “oh, they’ll lose ratings now”, don’t they know MSNBC is already the lowest rated? Nowhere to go but up.


206 posted on 09/07/2008 7:40:08 PM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: ozarkgirl
Thanks ozarkgirl, sounds as if it will not be as bad as I first thought (ABC). I am sure that she will do very well, and she will be seen by a different audience :)
208 posted on 09/07/2008 7:40:46 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Red in Blue PA

I can’t wait to see the reaction on DU if and when Rupert Murdock purchases the NY Times.


209 posted on 09/07/2008 7:42:21 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: JavaJumpy

bemildred (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-07-08 10:22 PM
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24. I guess we all could learn to read again. nt


210 posted on 09/07/2008 7:45:05 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes (In my day,Flunking gym was not an option , even for Stupid Kids!)
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To: roses of sharon

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/09/05/blogger-says-mccain-speech-protestors-had-msnbc-badges

I took the shuttle bus back to Minneapolis, and I overheard a convention organizer named Phil telling a convention delegate that the protesters on Wednesday night got through because of media credentials that were traced back to MSNBC (he told her that each credential has an individual bar code for each convention invitee). They suspect MSNBC this time as well.


211 posted on 09/07/2008 7:46:23 PM PDT by roses of sharon (READ MY LIPSTICK!)
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To: waus

Olbermann and Matthews were Clymers (everyone remember that one?) MSNBC ALWAYS finished last. Talk about a no-brainer.


213 posted on 09/07/2008 7:47:05 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Red in Blue PA

BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Sun Sep-07-08 10:20 PM
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22. Just shows how tightly owned the media is by the repukes and their lackeys.

I cannot believe that McSame had the nerve to file a complaint about MSNBC coverage...when every other network in the world is fawning and drooling over him...

If this isn’t Fascism...I don’t know what is...


214 posted on 09/07/2008 7:47:30 PM PDT by 1035rep (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: Charles Henrickson
Two down, many many more to go..


215 posted on 09/07/2008 7:47:44 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: clintonh8r

If a player protests a play... or tries to lie about something..

Michaels will call it Clintonian lol..


217 posted on 09/07/2008 7:49:40 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
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To: rdl6989
Don’t forget the tetanus shot and antibiotics.

Check!

218 posted on 09/07/2008 7:49:50 PM PDT by 1035rep (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Should there be a Freep email campaign of nice notes to NBC, thanking them for doing this?

Or is the conservative movement better off if more media outlets are allowed to show their true colors and descend into the abyss like MSNBC has done. It is interesting to see what happens when you take the minimal “try to be non-partisan” shackles off the liberal media and watch a place like MSNBC basically become DU.


219 posted on 09/07/2008 7:50:29 PM PDT by SteveAustin
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To: perfect_rovian_storm
What makes David Gregory any less ‘incendiary’?

Probably nothing but we're down two assclowns now.

220 posted on 09/07/2008 7:51:12 PM PDT by 1035rep (McCain/Palin 08)
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