The Whole Delivery

I can't stress enough how important Keith Olbermann's words here about Campbell Brown's and CNN's continue sad exploitation of the "false equivalency" model. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy I cannot ameliorate Olbermann's words here. His description of the current crisis of journalism pervading through cable television right now is spot on. I would bet you a lot of money that Campbell Brown, Joe Klein, and the others over at CNN think that Bill Moyers was a partisan ultra liberal commentator instead of one of the few true class journalists remaining on television. It's the indolent thinking, the shoddy effort, at finding the whole truth that CNN has so sadly mired into fully. And it is the same position that frankly all of cable news television outside of Keith, Rachel, and Ed Schultz are currently in as well.

I can't believe I'm seeing this : As Liliana said : It shouldn't surprise anyone that has been able to pay attention though: It shouldn't at all.

The Olbermann/GE/NY Times/NewsCrop drama that has gotten Glenn Greenwald involved, invited a comment from Jane Hamsher, and has been talked about by a few others has taken attention away from a potentially even bigger story of media criticism: CNN trying to prevent other cable networks from airing Media Matters rational and sane attack on "Birther Journalism Advocate of the Year" Lou Dobbs. In a story that reaks of TV corruption of the highest order at least congruent to General Electric motives (well, at a few of their higher ups if not all), Time Warner has grown on a crusade to make sure that the ad not only never sees the light of day on their channel, but their supposed main rivals . Unbelievable. I’m told by a CNN source that the network privately pressed cable operators not to run the Media Matters ad attacking Dobbs, which pilloried his footsie with the birthers as CNN’s “Lou Dobbs problem.” Media Matters had previously booked a week’s worth of ad time on MSNBC, Fo...

This ad You won't be seeing on CNN now, as Sam Stein reports A television advertisement attacking CNN host Lou Dobbs for promoting the "birther" conspiracy theory will not be airing during Dobbs's show -- or on CNN at all -- on most of the cable systems that the group behind the ad had intended. On Monday, the progressive media watchdog group Media Matters put out an ad attacking Dobbs for continuing to report the doubts about President Obama's birth certificates as if it they were grounded in reality. The spot was slated to run on the three major cable news stations -- Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN -- in three major media markets -- New York, Atlanta and Washington D.C. Typical. This would have never gone down with the CNN under Ted Turner. The old good CNN. Journalism takes another hit in the stomach.