SHOCKER! Olbermann in the tank for Obama...

[tagryn]

Per newsbusters.org. If Obama/Biden wins the POTUS race, MSNBC may as well fire Olbermann. He's lost any sense of objectivity, and there's no way he could criticize that Administration after throwing his support so heavily behind their cause. I can see Colbert and Maher having a future under O/B, much as Limbaugh was able to ride on his natural entertainment talent while Bush II was in power, but Olbermann? Nah. What does he have left to offer, if there's nothing for him to rant against?

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[(Anonymous)]

The problem is that there are media representives on both both sides who are clearly biased (see Ron Fournier, the AP's Washington bureau chief, whose coverage is clearly slanted for McCain) - However liberals only attack the conservative bias and conservatives only attack the liberal bias -- The 'watchdogs' should aggressively point out the bais on both sides

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and pixies should dust all your flowers and carry off the bad bugs, but that's also a fantasy.


Really, Tom. If Bill O'Reilly wasn't fired for lack of objectivity, then why should Olbermann be fired? The myth of objectivity has been pretty well shattered over the last twenty years, and while there hasn't been much in the way of objective, mainstream-published discussion of this (for obvious reasons) most thinking people have long since realized that we failed to maintain the Ideals of the Fourth Estate. Being objective is astonishingly difficult and pragmatically every government knows and encourages that difficulty because it operates against the maintenance of control. Further, the objectivity of the press is tainted by the necessity for funding the day to day operations of the press.

There are people who are able to set aside their personal beliefs on a daily basis in the framework of a job. Many of them are quite good at it, and they use the cognitive and operational tools of the job to make those decisions. We can find them in the judiciary, especially, as a special requirement of the job, but there are fewer people in the press who do this than there used to be.
Olbermann, in recognizing that he has a personal bias, is doing much, much better than (specifically) the person who wrote that article you cited. His awareness of that bias is what allows him to write objectively.