Worth a read!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/congratulations-to-olberm_b_18086.htmlThough he might be personally be more liberal than, say, Sean Hannity, I've always seen Olbermann as an old school news anchor with one foot in the realm of Edward R. Murrow, and the other in modern New Media; an anchor who can at once be funny, insightful, and deadly serious. And if Olbermann is the professional I think he is, he keeps his personal politics on the sidelines as much as possible and simply reports on the news that we truly need to know.
And again -- I can't stress this enough -- if the Republican-controlled government continues to implode, taking the Constitution with it, then that's the news. And reporting this kind of news should in no way be construed as liberal bias.
But no matter how you slice Countdown, it's not a pundit show. And it shouldn't be regarded as a "liberal" counterpart to O'Reilly because they're two very, very different types of shows. Countdown is the closest thing we have to a real news show. O'Reilly is almost 100 percent semi-fictional demagoguery.
The Countdown approach is what we ought to be demanding more of. Not more punditry which only serves to perpetuate endless debates about bias. The problem of bias in cable news and, subsequently, the Cuckoo's Nest psych ward that's passed off as our national discourse will only worsen if cable news programming continues to skew into some kind of Spy vs. Spy quid pro quo.