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Tucker Carlson's attempt at humor at the expense of Keith Olbermann may land the bow tie-loving conservative pundit in legal hot water. Earlier this week, Carlson's site the Daily Caller registered the domain name Keitholberman.com as a publicity gimmick.

President Obama is exhorting Americans to break the cable news habit. And he's right, because cable news emphasizes unimportant and visually sensational "news" instead of information with actual news value.

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.

If sticking your foot in your mouth was an Olympic sport, the MSNBC blowhard would surely be a gold medalist. During last night's State of the Union, the Hardball host praised President Obama's performance, saying "I forgot he was black tonight for an hour." He later "clarified" his statement, saying he meant Obama has transcended race. Really?

Rupert Murdoch wants everyone to know that Fox News doesn't start playground fights -- but it's not afraid of them, either. On a conference call to discuss News Corp.'s (NWS) fiscal first-quarter earnings, the 78-year-old chairman, dialing in from Sydney, Australia, was asked about reports that...

You might think spending five hours a week taping the daily hen party that is The View would be enough to scratch anyone's itch to gab. Joy Behar wants more. Starting Tuesday at 9 p.m., the actress/comedian will be hosting her own one-hour nightly talk show on HLN, the CNN sister channel formerly...

For the last couple years, CNN has been looking increasingly out of step with the cable news audience, offering up middle-of-the-road, milquetoast news in prime time as its competitors stocked their schedules with ever more strident political commentary. The result: a fall to fourth place behind...

Don't they teach the law of unintended consequences in CEO school? News Corp. (NWS) chairman Rupert Murdoch and General Electric Co. (GE) chief Jeffrey Immelt tried to spare themselves some personal discomfort by brokering a truce of sorts between their cable news operations, whose mascots, Bill...

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...