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Thanks so much for the mention, Norm!

Olbermann's on thin ice with me if he doesn't acknowledge the terrible wrong he did to Chris Mihlfeld when he covered the baseball steroid scandal earlier this summer. Mihlfeld was one guy making a living in baseball. A blog made a scandalous accusation. Olbermann picked up on it. Now Mihlfeld has been effectively exonerated but the damage done his reputation won't begin to be repaired until the big guns at places like MSNBC, people like Olbermann, apologize publicly.

http://steidler.net/2006/06/09/mihlfields-version/

Why not ask Bill Moyers if Keith Olbermann is skating on thin ice. PBS supposedly should allow all points of view but where is Moyer’s Friday night show? Did not Mr. Moyers editorialize too heavily against the Bush administration and then found he was pressured to leave PBS.

If it can happen at PBS it most certainly can/will happen at NBC.

Moyers is back on PBS with a series of specials On America - last night was a 2 hour episode on the graft and corruption of Tom Delay and his crowd.

As for Oberlmann people who watch him (I don't get him here)should contact NBC and let hem know that if he's dropped they wioll be contacting every sponsor on NBC and telling them why they won't be buying their product anymore thank you very much. Get hundreds of thousands of people to do that and I guarantee Olbermann can say what he wants forever.

I understand why people think Olbermann may be headed for trouble, but I honestly don't think so.

Donahue was canned at the peak of Bushmania in the U.S., a very different and scarier climate in which even the opponents of the current regime found themselves wondering whether the GOP had become too firmly entrenched to oust.

Moyers' departure from PBS was engineered, in an act of administrative interference theretofore unprecedented at PBS, by Kenneth Tomlinson, Bush's appointee as CPB chairman, and whose politically motivated excesses as chair are still under investigation following his 2005 resignation.

Olbermann, on the other hand, has broken the ice in an atmosphere where questioning The Leader doesn't make you a traitor the way it used to. In corporate boardrooms, as in politics, there are no allies or enemies, but only interests, and I don't think the prospect of angering the administration frightens them like it used to. Combine that with the way Olbermann seems to be turning around the idea of MSNBC as that news network that's more boring than FOX News and has less credibility (or at least brand recognition) than CNN, and I think the dollar signs will convince NBC to leave Keith alone.

I still agree he may shoot himself in the foot by establishing the "Olbermann's Outraged Screed of the Day" pattern, however, but that will be his own doing rather than nefarious interference.

I understand why people think Olbermann may be headed for trouble, but I honestly don't think so.

Donahue was canned at the peak of Bushmania in the U.S., a very different and scarier climate in which even the opponents of the current regime found themselves wondering whether the GOP had become too firmly entrenched to oust.

Moyers' departure from PBS was engineered, in an act of administrative interference theretofore unprecedented at PBS, by Kenneth Tomlinson, Bush's appointee as CPB chairman, and whose politically motivated excesses as chair are still under investigation following his 2005 resignation.

Olbermann, on the other hand, has broken the ice in an atmosphere where questioning The Leader doesn't make you a traitor the way it used to. In corporate boardrooms, as in politics, there are no allies or enemies, but only interests, and I don't think the prospect of angering the administration frightens them like it used to. Combine that with the way Olbermann seems to be turning around the idea of MSNBC as that news network that's more boring than FOX News and has less credibility (or at least brand recognition) than CNN, and I think the dollar signs will convince NBC to leave Keith alone.

I still agree he may shoot himself in the foot by establishing the "Olbermann's Outraged Screed of the Day" pattern, however, but that will be his own doing rather than nefarious interference.

Olbermann’s Outrage Screed of the Day (good one, Gelf!)

Mr. Olbermann is probably trying to pattern/model/format his show to be like a neo-Ed R. Murrow of yore. His show needs to have a screed to editorialize about or it’s just another Jon Stewart/The Daily Show. Plus, there is enough material out there to provide for a couple of screeds per day.

I’m assuming, too, Olbermann and his writers/crew will recognize the instant when his screeds are morphing into the same kind of screeds his archrival O’Reilly spews or sputters on the Fox Network and then Mr. Olbermann will stop or change patterns/model/format.

How did I miss that Moyers special on PBS? Dang! I guess it will be repeated again…at least one more time before Election Day.