This is the CBS Evening News ... with Keith Olbermann?

I've heard lefty Keith's political coverage outside of his show, and he still can't help himself. The NBC family has headed down the dumper for years. MS and CN BC's ratings are so low that a normal company would shelve them. Until they get off their soapbox, they will continue to piss off half of their viewers.

olbermann acts out on his own show to get ratings, as there was definitely a market for a liberally-biased show.

however in regular event coverage, he leaves his bias out of it.

I say give him a chance and see how he does.

I can't imagine anyone who watches Olbermann, a fan or otherwise could pretend he isn't as biased as they come. his brand of news is nasty hate spewing attacks. The tit for tat has to stop somewhere, and instead of taking the higher ground, olberman, like a little kid sticks out his tongue and acts like a 2 year old. What happened to professionalism?

Liberal bias is okay, because it's closer to your reality, but conservative bias is not because....I'm guessing because Bush is an idiot (which I happen to agree with). However, no bias is warranted in the news. Bias is for editorials. Just because the majority of the public has lost sight of that does not negate the fact. News = facts. Editorial = opinion (and thus bias).

That article was a joke. They rail against Olbermann's bias, at the same time as they have an incredible bias against Olbermann himself.

The key example being, of course, that they don't mention the fact that he is completely different when he is anchoring political coverage than on his show.

There are three facts to note here, 1. Olbermann is a raging liberal, but reality has a liberal bias, so that puts him far closer to reality than every other newsman on television. 2. Every other supposedly objective newsman has a bias that is plain to see after 2 seconds watching them, but it is more insidious, because they couch there questions and their coverage in a supposedly non-partisan way that is still obviously crafted to get across a certain viewpoint. 3. The comparison of O'Reilly and Olbermann is really far-fetched. O'Reilly isn't on during the network's regular news coverage, because he isn't a newsman, he is a hate-filled, idiotic bloviator. (As opposed to the more penned in, hate-filled, somewhat intelligent bloviators that anchor the news on Fox). Olbermann is on during that time, becuase he is a newsman, and you can see it on the air. He has an opinion that is easy to be seen, as opposed to the opinions that are hidden in plain sight on every other network.

Olbermann surely couldn't have been a worse choice than Couric, at least going by hindsight. Even more controversial than her, in his way, he definitely would have recreated the evening news in a new image, which is what they claimed to want. And he wouldn't have made it more gossip-y, so that's a plus.

I've been a fan of Olbermann since his ESPN days; yes, he's got a STRONG personality, but nowadays if you don't you kind of get lost in the crowd.