Accuracy in Media

Al Sharpton, whose Politics Nation show made its official debut this week on MSNBC, apparently forgot to read all the fine print on his contract when it comes to the network’s campaign endorsement policy, which tripped up Keith Olbermann and Joe Scarborough. The Wall Street Journal interviewed Sharpton on Wednesday and he told the paper that […]

In response to my question about GBTV, Glenn Beck’s new online television venture, author and pundit S.E. Cupp said at the RightOnline conference last weekend that she isn’t worried about Keith Olbermann’s return to cable TV, and that Beck is competing with the cable news networks and not online news providers. Cupp wasn’t predicting the […]

The waiting is over.  Liberals who have been wondering what former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann was going to do next can now follow his liberal rants on AL Gore’s Current TV: Keith Olbermann, the acclaimed broadcaster and writer whose verbal pyrotechnics and moral passion have outraged, informed, and dazzled viewers of “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” […]

As Ed Morrissey of Hot Air wrote yesterday there has been plenty of speculation that Fox News might pursue Keith Olbermann to add a real liberal voice to the conservative network.  But Morrissey rightly notes that Fox News chief Roger Ailes is actually far more interested in a bigger marquee name should the opportunity arise […]

The Hollywood Reporter interviewed MSNBC vice president of programming Bill Wolff about what happens now that Keith Olbermann is gone an the network’s addiction to Sarah Palin. In the article Paul Bond points out that Olbermann first mentioned Palin’s name way back in July of 2008 and according to a Lexis-Nexis search had managed to […]

Former MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olbermann who signed off the air last Friday night has reemerged on the internet via Twitter with what he calls the Friends of Keith or FOK News Channel. Olbermann launched his “channel” yesterday ahead of the president’s SOTU speech but chose to use his regular Twitter account for tweets about […]

The apparently sudden departure of Keith Olbermann from MSNBC had actually been planned for weeks according to The New York Times. For the last several weeks, Mr. Olbermann and the network have been in negotiations to end his successful run on MSNBC, according to executives involved in the talks who requested anonymity because the talks […]

On Monday night Keith Olbermann continued his attack on the Tea Party by citing a Daily Kos/Public Policy Polling survey that showed that 13% of  Tea Party voters favored violence against the current American government. What Olbermann left out according to Tommy Christopher of Mediaite was as even bigger number(17%)  of 18-29 year-olds who felt […]

After the huge Democrat losses in the November elections, and that includes statewide races as well, there hasn’t been a lot for liberals to cheer about with the exception of what they perceive as big lame-duck session victories. So it should come as no surprise that a liberal MSNBC anchor jumped all over a study […]

The liberal spin machine was in full force Monday as left wing anchor Keith Olbermann atempted to backpedal from his comparison of the tax cut compromise to Nazi appeasement last week. From Mediaite During a Special Comment segment last week,Countdown host Keith Olbermann showed his displeasure with President Obama’s compromise on the Bush Tax Cuts by comparing […]