Olbermann vs. O'Reilly

[Solomwi]

Originally posted by loinburger
The liberal side of me laughs at the clip because Bill O'Reilly is a douchebag, and the conservative side of me laughs at the clip because Bill O'Reilly is a douchebag.

Fixed.

That was good stuff, with flashes of the genius with which Olbermann graced Sportscenter oh, those many years ago.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by StarLightDeath
onegoodmove.org? Is this the sequel to moveon.org? Not that it matters since they are both looney liberal sites that Europeans pay more attention to than Americans.

I like how you never let facts get in the way of your opinions. O'Reilly gets skewered by just about everyone because O'Reilly is a pompous ass who constantly gets facts wrong and attempts to bully his way out of his own faux pauxs. I think most honest people see that.

[Guynemer]

Olbermann

[Q Classic]

Olbermann's show is pretty fecking boring, but he's got decent editorials like this one every now and then.

[Gatekeeper]

Hmpfh. Olbermann's better than anything else CNN or FOX have on at the 7 p.m. CST hour, IMO. CNN's full of boring, "softie" stories — Paula Zahn's just not a hard-news type of anchor — and FOX, well, FOX is its stereotypical self.

Of course, if you really want in-depth news, you need to hit the newspapers (online and/or print editions) and magazines (online and/or print editions). And, yes, I have an ulterior motive for pushing those.

Gatekeeper

[Q Classic]

TV news is pretty much teh sux.

Babies are spoon-fed better quality ****.

[Gatekeeper]

I couldn't agree more, Q, although in all fairness, TV is good for fast-moving, breaking developments (ex. such as Sept. 11, 2001) and the occasional feature story that actually goes into detail (ex. "60 Minutes" and "Nightline").

Gatekeeper

[Q Classic]

True. Say what you will about cable tv, it doesn't go down under extraordinarily heavy load on syn/ack packets.

[Gatekeeper]

Nope. PBS probably comes closest, and it's not cable.

[Odin]

TV news has become useless infotainment and the propaganda tools of the conglomerates that own them. GE, which owns NBC, has defense contracts and so is profiting from the Iraq war, so NBC and MSNBC ain't going to piss of thier masters. We are becoming the same corporate-ruled dystopia that is in Red Mars.

[Q Classic]

Red Mars.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Odin
TV news has become useless infotainment and the propaganda tools of the conglomerates that own them. GE, which owns NBC, has defense contracts and so is profiting from the Iraq war, so NBC and MSNBC ain't going to piss of thier masters. We are becoming the same corporate-ruled dystopia that is in Red Mars.

IIRC, Keith Olbermann has never been a fan of President Bush nor the war. And he has the coveted 7 PM spot on MSNBC. So now, while I appreciate a good conspiracy theory, how would this NOT piss off the "corporate masters" if they had such influence as you say they do?

[Q Classic]

Stop drinking the corporate kool-aid, Imran! Logic is a sneaky, evil trick of teh MAN!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
Red Mars.

I like Red Mars as well, but I couldn't get through Blue Mars. I just read The Years of Rice and Salt, but while good, he should have cut it by 200 pages. It just dragged at the end... and I had to when he started in with his utopian socialism stuff. I know he likes that, but he doesn't have to put it in EVERY book he writes!

[Odin]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


IIRC, Keith Olbermann has never been a fan of President Bush nor the war. And he has the coveted 7 PM spot on MSNBC. So now, while I appreciate a good conspiracy theory, how would this NOT piss off the "corporate masters" if they had such influence as you say they do?

He's the token anti-Bush guy. Mathews and Scarbourough are major Bush sycophants, so is Blitzer on CNN.