Re: Ann Coulter: Save Keith Olbermann! (L.A. Times story.)


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February 4, 2010, 7:49 AM
SAVE KEITH OLBERMANN! - LAT: Countdown begins for end of Keith
Olbermann's 'Countdown'?

As indicated by posts in the comments section (other than a few
written by Keith himself), Countdown's audience consists mostly of
right-wingers who watch it the way other people watch "The Jersey
Shore." PLEASE DON'T TAKE THIS AWAY FROM US, MSNBC!

(Story link below)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/02/keith-olbermann-msnbc-glenn-beck-bill-oreilly-fox-news/comments/page/2/#comments

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msnbc-glenn-beck-bill-oreilly-fox-news/comments/page/2/#comments>

Countdown begins for end of Keith Olbermann's 'Countdown'?
February 3, 2010 | 2:22 am

Remember Keith Olbermann?

He was the one-time must-see anti-Bush ranter who helped rescue MSNBC
(yes, it's still on at night) from even worse oblivion years ago.

Well, quietly last month while no one was looking, hardly anyone was
watching Keith Olbermann anymore.
The guy, who's even apparently tried to get some Sarah Palin-like
eyeglasses, is now forced to leap over-the-top on ex-state senators
like Scott Brown and Tuesday's worst person, Fox News' Glenn Beck.
Beck is the successful talker with the perfect haircut for radio. Like
most Americans, he wasn't watching Keith.

There are a couple of reasons for KO's frustration and anger and
volume and core meltdown over the Massachusetts election outcome,
among other issues of galactic import. For one, lots more ranters
around nowadays on all sides, including that colleague of Keith's with
the hugest head in TV. Please, no 3-D for him!

Also, Olbermann's showboat is sinking. Listing in you-know-which
direction.

It's as if he thinks talking LOUDER will keep his low cell battery
from dying.

Worst, Olbermann's network president, Phil Griffin, is publicly
praising him, always an ominous sign in television. While referring to
his host almost in the past tense. "Keith has been our tentpole,"
Griffin says, adding later, "I'm pleased with where we are."

Where they are, as Jeff Bercovici points out over at Daily Finance, is
way behind the big boys over at Fox News, Bill O'Reilly and gang. In
fact, Keith is so far behind Bill, he can't even make out the state of
the license plate, let alone the numbers. Bercovici thinks Americans
may be outgrowing Olbermann's schtick.

In the most desirable TV demographic of 25-54, which Keith will soon
outgrow himself, "Countdown" lost 44% of its audience from the
beginning of President Obama's term until this year. It could have
been worse -- say, 45%.

Olbermann averaged 268,000 viewers last month in that sector. That's
just several thousand sets of those eyes more than Campbell Brown over
on CNN. According to one count, Keith even finished in that time slot
behind Nancy Grace. Nancy Grace!

And she's on Headline News, Headline News, the repetitious TV channel
the repetitious TV channel inflicted on all U.S. airline travelers
within any boarding area around the clock so that when, at least an
hour late, each person is finally crammed into plane seats between
professional wrestlers, they feel relief.

ON TOPIC!!!

LG
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"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford


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