(Given what a challenge it is to continue to afford to do this jobbie (LD) sans any many external gestures to commercialism, etc., the whole shebang is even more poignant to me.)

Historians might point to the simple, inevitable pendulum swings of history, at least, on the matter of why the tides might be turning. One can only take sooooo much imbicile crypto-fascism.

Then again, ask Gramsci; he’d say we can be quite nicely programmed to swallow it all, ’til we’ve got no stomach left.

Fixed the broke link to the LA Times piece, by the way. Thanks for the heads-up.

His post includes the line ‘who only explicitly sports extremist right-wing rhetoric on Sundays’ to describe one of the other news anchors- priceless!

Still don’t understand it though- if its all about increasing ratings why are part of the audience suddenly interested in a ‘liberal’ viewpoint? Were they not before?

I’ve never understood why the right has such a grip on the media in the US, nor why that grip would appear to be loosening just now…..

“The decay of serious journalism and Rachel Maddow’s new show”

Amazingly, this piece confirms what I’d read earlier in the LA Times piece: that — you could knock me over with a feather — Keith Olberman has indeed been very popular. Bill Carter, a New York Times TV critic wrote the same earlier in the week:

MSNBC has put heavy emphasis this year on presidential election coverage (it has given itself the tag line, “The Place for Politics”) and has turned to Ms. Maddow frequently both as a guest and as a substitute for the network’s most popular host, Keith Olbermann. Mr. Olbermann’s emergence as the signature personality on the network has led to an unofficial rebranding of MSNBC as the liberal alternative to Fox News, which is dominated by conservative hosts like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity.

MSNBC has been known to be seeking a way to capitalize to a greater degree on Mr. Olbermann’s popularity. A program hosted by Ms. Maddow will almost certainly be a closer ideological fit with Mr. Olbermann’s.

They did go through the roof when she guest-hosted for Olberman (if memory serves).

She’s smart, she’s funny, she’s hot… and her laugh! She’s been my internet girlfriend for years. I adore her.

But this is better. Smart eye candy! Actively being smart while also being eye candy! I’d rather watch smart than sweat.

we are in season

may it ever be so.
we can take our place in the produce aisle.
right next to the organic peaches, is my hope.

I like girls who look like boys. And are smart.

VT, without wanting to be too presumptuous, I think that might mean us. We all may just be in season. Or at least for a day. Which is fine by me.

i am bossy: The Only Thing Standing Between Bossy And Her New Husband Is A Vagina. Or Two.