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A week-long anchoring stint on MSNBC by Donny Deutsch ended abruptly on Wednesday, and four people briefed on the decision said the cancellation stemmed from an unflattering mention of that channel’s No. 1 anchor, Keith Olbermann, a day earlier.Mr. Deutsch had labeled his hour on MSNBC “America the Angry”, and Mr. Olbermann was shown briefly in a series of clips of media bloviators during a segment that pondered what role the media plays in fomenting the public’s anger. The four people briefed on MSNBC’s decision said Mr. Olbermann’s anger about the segment prompted the cancellation of the weeklong “America the Angry” series…Mr. Olbermann’s detractors have repeatedly claimed in the past that he has refused to host his show on occasions when he was unhappy with management…“The segment did not go unnoticed and we’re dealing with it internally,” said Jeremy Gaines, an MSNBC spokesman.http://hotair.com/archives/2010/04/21/oh-my-donny-deutsch-off-the-air-at-msnbc-for-knocking-olbermann/
Olbermann is MSNBC's #1 anchor?
Just a quick sports analogy...being the #1 anchor on MSNBC is like being the best player on the LA Clippers.
Or the WNBA.
And MSNBC considers itself a media outlet? It's more like submissive pet for the master Obama administration.
Olbermann is MSNBC's #1 anchor? How low on the ratings ladder do you have to be to land a job as Keith Olbermann's fill-in guy?I admit, I saw part of Deutch's program last week. It was awful.
I just want to know when Keif will be published in the next OUT edition.
I am coming late to this rodeo, but there's a good reason for that. I have been on this nasty horse before, long before many of my colleagues, and I have promised myself I would not mount again without taking 24 hours to first think about it.Well, the 24 hours are up, and here I come to write once again about what a reckless TV figure Keith Olbermann is -- and how irresponsible MSNBC and NBC News management are for giving him a national platform and the network's credibility to spread his innuendo, invective and smears. Olbermann tries to talk like he's Edward R. Murrow, but he operates in the dirty tradition of Joe McCarthy.I'll give you a link to me criticizing Olbermann as a danger to an informed and reasoned democratic discourse. And then, I'll give you a link to him attempting to smear me in response. But first let me commend the short-lived MSNBC guest host Donny Deutsch for essentially saying this week what I have been saying the last two years: That if you want to talk about the inflammatory rhetoric that poisons our media today, you better include Olbermann in that discussion along with Glenn Beck of Fox News and syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh.Only Deutsch and his producer "said" it by including video of Olbermann in a montage on MSNBC showing "angry" speech, and got sent home in the middle of a planned weeklong guest-hosting run. As much of a shock as this will be to some of my colleagues, it does appear based on what happened to Deutsch that there is more room for self-criticism on Fox News than there is on MSNBC.(more...)
