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Hey Keith Olbermann, Have You Ever Really Read DailyFinance?
10:40AM 2/03/2010

When I wrote that the tide is turning against MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, I suspected it might land me a place on his "Worst Person in the World" list, where he settles his scores. But I didn't think that he'd tell an outright lie about me and the organization I work for.

When the left needed a forceful voice to rally around, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann became so popular that MSNBC reoriented its primetime lineup around it. But today, creeping indications suggest that viewers might have lost some patience with Olbermann's shenanigans.

Last week, I wrote about how Keith Olbermann, one of the liberal media's most eloquent and persuasive speakers, may have transgressed his own moral standards when Countdown regular Richard Wolffe went to work with Public Strategies, a prominent PR firm. Although it brought me no pleasure to...

Forget about political winds and social trends. The dominance of Fox News in the cable ratings race has lasted through wartime and peacetime, boom and recession, Republican and Democrat. It's not a product of circumstance -- it's a law of nature: irresistible, irreducible and seemingly immutable....
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