PBS and MSNBC. There was a time when you wouldn’t find PBS welcoming a competing personality for an interview. Times, my friends, have changed. Transcript and video, from PBS.
Welcome to the journal. We have a lot of ground to cover in this hour – from journalism and media merger mania to politics and race. First, despite the clutter and conglomeration in commercial broadcasting a new voice occasionally emerges that proves the exception to the rule. The rule is either echo right-wing ideology or bow your knee to the god of “objectivity,” meaning you simply counter a pound of official propaganda with an ounce of counter spin. Jon Stewart broke this mold with his daily show on comedy central. And now MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has done the same for cable news. Olbermann leaves no doubt about [...]
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