Olbermann
For about a year now, I’ve been pimping Keith Olbermann and his show to anyone who would listen to me. It’s the best news broadcast on cable. Alternet has a nice article on Olbermann and his show. What he’s doing is not only good, it’s successful. Olbermann’s ratings had been on a slow, but steady upward path for a while. Since August alone, though, they’ve suddenly shot up. They’re up by 55% since then. Making Olbermann the co-anchor of MSNBC’s election night coverage brought them up by 111% in the 25-54 age set. I’m part of that audience. I don’t think my TV left MSNBC more than a total of 10 minutes the whole night.
December 4th, 2006 at 5:09 am
Interesting perspective:
Olbermann credits sportscasting for his candid and historical-minded approach. “In sports, if a center-fielder drops the fly ball, you can’t pretend he didn’t,” he says. “There’s also an awareness of patterns, a relationship between what has gone before and what is to come that is so strong in sports coverage that doesn’t seem to be there in news reporting.”