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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Olbermann on Fire
Posted by Jill | 8:14 AM

Still the best in the business:

"A note about Laura Ingraham's comments. I've known her a long time. I'll in fact give you the caveat that I've know her socially. But that hotel balcony crack was unforgivable. In was unforgivable to the memory of David Blum, it was unforgivable in considerable of Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt, unforgivable in light of what happened to Michael Kelly and what happened to Michael Weiskopf. It was unforgivable with Jill Carroll still a hostage in Iraq. And it was not only unforgivable of her; it was desperate and it was stupid."


When I watch Keith Olbermann stand up for truth in journalism, rather than the Pravda-like shilling that we see from the likes of Bill O'Reilly (on whose show Laura Ingraham made her "reporting from the hotel balcony" remarks), I'm reminded of what this country was like when journalists took their jobs seriously; when reporting of FACTS and TRUTH, rather than spin and sensationalism and the false "balance" of giving equal time to truth and utter bullshit, was the job of television news, and those involved took it seriously.

Yes, sometimes David Gregory will get up and defend Helen Thomas when Scott McClellan calls her a terrorist sympathizer -- and then he'll go back to shilling the next day. But keeping in mind that Jon Stewart is still doing essentially sketch comedy, albeit sketch comedy that contains more truth than any show on Fox News, Keith Olbermann seems to be the only news anchor today who takes seriously his job to broadcast the news into your living room. And given how snarky and irreverent Olbermann is, and how he comes from SPORTS broadcasting, that seems kind of sad.
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