Mon 8 Sep 2008
Olbermann and Matthews Axed
Posted by Ghost of Dude under Media
Apparently, nobody does what Fox News does better than Fox News - especially not MSNBC.
After on-air squabbles with each other and guests and continued poor ratings, David Gregory will now anchor political coverage.
It seems that liberal viewers, who were clearly the target audience for MSNBC’s coverage, prefer the dispassionate, boring, straight news to some blowhard telling them what he thinks of it all. Lesson learned. If you want to get people to watch your blowhards, social conservatives seem to be a more willing market - provided they agree with you.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:50 am
I really like Olberman, but him and Matthews really do think highly of their own opinions. I could see this trainwreck coming a mile away when I heard they were hosting together. It would be like putting Bill O’ Reilly and Rush together, bad idea.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:16 am
I think the real issue is that liberal viewers watch Stewart and Colbert…oh, and they READ.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:16 am
and they grasp both sides of the issue, even if they do not agree with it.
September 8th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I watch Olbermann every once in a while just to see what the liberal blowhards are talking about today - much like I watch O’Reilly (out of morbid curiousity) to see what the conservative blowhards are saying.
The problem is substituting people who blow really hard for news coverage. It must be really tough not to when you have 24 hours to fill.
September 9th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Actually, before moving to Alaska last week, my Aunt Bertha Bullroar just recently stated (rather loudly at our family reunion in Pukwana) that since Fox News is the only blowhardnessed news network that is flair and blanched, it is the only one for her to watch…I tend to agree as they seem to have many more skilled and handsome blowhards and seem to swallow up important news more than the other networks.
Sincerely,
Eggbert, etc.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:01 am
Well Olbermann was a sports caster in his previous life . . .