Via the HuffPo:
Olbermann: “I’ve done the two kinds of news hours that she references by implication, one where you just read what’s handed to you and you pretend that both sides — correct and wrong — merit equal consideration and you believe that you, and you alone in the world, are objective.
And I’ve done the news hour where you stick your neck out and tell the echo chamber it’s wrong, and you try to get people thinking, and you get death threats in the mail, and dirty looks in the hallway. And trust me, of those two kinds, trying to present an ‘unbiased perspective’ isn’t just easier, it’s as easy as rereading the Associated press wire copy.
CNN’s 8 o’clock news programs haven’t failed because they’re competing with opinion and interpretative news programs. They’ve failed because CNN hasn’t figured out that everything it puts on the air is available to everybody who watches all day on the internet and if you don’t bring something else to the table, they aren’t going to watch!”





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