For some reason Fox News is okay but MSNBC isn't

[Silent Dob]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/business/media/08msnbc.html?_r=3&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[Swede]

As much as I tend to agree with Olbermann on a number of issues, I can understand the reasoning for not keeping him in an anchor position, as he really has always been more of a commentator than an anchor. I get most of my news online anyway, so not too huge of a deal.

[Plekto]

They're plainly afraid that Olbermann will come down like a crate of bricks on both candidates.

[Jetsetlemming]

Isn't MSNBC behind Fox and CNN by ridiculously huge ratings numbers?

I don't see the point of the question posed in the topic title. This is MSNBC personally reacting to criticisms and trying to change because they're desperately hurting for ratings and will do anything to get people to watch (which was initially the point of these two anchors and I disagree with their decision to take them off, as Olbermann is the only thing about MSNBC I've heard people discuss and show any remote interest in since forever). Fox News has more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined and multiplied to some degree so they could care less what people say about them because their formula is ratings gold.

[sOkU]

I like Keith Olbermann, ah well.

And it's kinda funny that Rachel Maddow gets a show after all of this.

[Sock Full of Boiled Dimes]

I watch Fox News for the same reason everyone else does.

To yell at my TV and pretend I'm arguing with an actual human.

[Beowulf]

I like Keith Olbermann, ah well.

And it's kinda funny that Rachel Maddow gets a show after all of this.
No shit. Olbermann, man he's way over the top liberal. Let's get a hugely feminist lesbian liberal to back him up.

btw don't call us liberal

[sOkU]

^ It's progressive.