On Countdown there is no fact-checking
From blue blog to Olby's hen-pecking
His "source" is dot com
He's disliked by Tom
Brokaw who's career Keith is wrecking

holy crap, Olbermann is so delusional. He says he doesn't use newspapers as a source but in the same breath says HIS special comments influence the news cycle & newspapers...

From a lenghty piece of the American Journalism Review:

Cable's Clout: With their obsessive single-topic focus, are the three 24-hour cable news channels setting the agenda for the rest of the media when it comes to the presidential campaign—even though most of the material they endlessly flog originates somewhere else?

By Paul Farhi

"...These days, Olbermann notes, a cable network doesn't wait for the morning newspaper to hit the doorstep to know what's news. Even 10 years ago, newspapers held their breaking stories until their bulldog editions, which typically were on the streets around 10 or 11 p.m. Now, the cycle is faster. MSNBC, for example, was reporting on the Times' lengthy investigation of McCain's relationship with a lobbyist a few minutes after the paper posted the story online, around 7:30 p.m. the day before publication of the print version.

Nevertheless, Olbermann says newspapers play a diminishing role in how he presents and comments on the news each night. "For us in particular, I don't think a newspaper story dictates our lead, or significantly shapes our entire rundown, more than once every couple of weeks," he says. Conversely, he adds, "I don't know that anything I've done here has ever dictated how newspapers have covered a specific story, but I think some of the Special Comments [Olbermann's lengthy and often angry outbursts of personal opinion] put a spotlight on big-picture issues some of the papers, and indeed most of the political figures, were not willing or able to address," such as the rights of jailed terrorism suspects."

http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4574

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golly-gee Olby, thanks for telling us what we here at OW already know, you're NOT a journalist, don't source NEWSPAPERS for your supposed NEWS show...what an 'effing' dolt.

Why bother with newspapers when you can use discredited blue blogs as your "news sources", and parrot them on air. Without, of course, bothering to fact check.

That is the beauty of his idiotic quote coming out today...he really is very full of himself...and a complete idiot.