Keith Olberman announces new show on Current TV

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werepossum

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He had no ratings because the Left doesn't want a mouthpiece to tell them what to think. Most of the Left prefers to get their information from multiple sources and credible sources. There's a reason that studies have shown that Fox News viewers are the most misinformed.

Really, Olbermann had his entertaining moments. Mainly when he was chastising someone who deserved it. There's something kinda amusing about seeing one smug prick chastise another smug prick for being a prick. He always came off as kinda a disappointed father to me.
He has no audience because he is presenting the same slant as ABC/CBS/NBC, almost all newspapers, and to some degree NPR and CNN. There's a reason why a smart lefty like Rupert Murdoch decided to start right-leaning news shows in the UK and USA - the field was wide open. That alone explains the explosive growth of FoxNews and SkyNews, both of which cater to the conservative base. A new network catering to the same liberal base as does the bulk of the media is naturally going to have problems collecting an audience, and while MSNBC and Olberman admittedly deliver it with more foaming moonbattery than those networks that want to maintain some modicum of respectability, in the end it's still the same slant.
 

Craig234

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He has no audience because he is presenting the same slant as ABC/CBS/NBC, almost all newspapers, and to some degree NPR and CNN.

Lie. Olbermann's content was far different, reporting accurately stories those mostly large corporate-dominated outlets (which Olbermann was on too, but found allowing him to be profitable as a niche product) did not. You are, as pretty much always, repeating lies for the right.

There's a reason why a smart lefty like Rupert Murdoch decided to start right-leaning news shows in the UK and USA - the field was wide open. That alone explains the explosive growth of FoxNews and SkyNews, both of which cater to the conservative base.

Close, but not quite. Murdoch recognized that there was an opening for a new news products, one which sold lies, by creating an alternate market of people who want them.

He understood that real news organizations do not want to rush to compete by selling lies against him, and he could get a near monopoly by creating the alternate market.

If someone could create a major market in the US for lies about Jews, they could make billions with 'the holocaust was false' shows, and know that mainstream media would not rush to start telling the same lies catering to that market - that's what he did, created a market, bought and paid for spending years to build it by being the first cable channel ever to pay the cable services to carry it, rather than the other way around.

It's a self-reinfocring market, where the products - including 90% of the talk radio market - keep its consumers wanting more lies.

Turns out that it's not that hard to sell lies. Just not everyone wants to be in that sleaze.

You are clearly happy to.