...and his former boss and his current one. Amazing, he takes shots at Cosby, KAplan, and Abrams, but not David Shuster. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/426287p-359629c.html
people are jerks. olberman replies to a fan and then it ends up in a column. you wonder why celebrities are so reclusive. but it was stupid to call someone "dumb as rocks", he's also got to be smarter than that.
Is Olbermann a bridge-burner, a-la Cosell when he trashed Gifford and Meredith in his book? Pretty visible anchor with multiple jobs, none of which seems to end well (although I never heard anything about his Fox Sport Net stint), what's the deal? Didn't he host "The Big Show" right after he left Sportscenter, but then left that because he was sick of covering the Lewinsky story (even though that ended up being pretty big, what with the first impeachment in 130 years)? Has his attitude/editorializing cost him any higher profile opportunities, like a big three anchor position? I actually like Rita's voice. Isn't it deep, but also kind of raspy? There was an actress who played Dennis Rodman's wife in his "Bad As I Wanna Be" TV Movie, who also had some guest spots on Married With Children. She had a raspy voice like that, and I thought it was kind of hottish. Also, I don't like it when the MSNBC news site has some commentary by her, but they don't put her full name on the link, they just put "Cosby," which actually confuses me sometimes (why is Dr. Huxtable talking to Natallee Holloway's mom?).
Does anybody know why he was picked as General Manager? Did he even produce Abrams Report (which I will also miss a little), or have any programming experience? Is MSNBC just opening themselves up to more criticism/ridicule with this move, even though GM is obviously a lower profile position?
Not only that, he disses the president of his company, and on his work email account. Forget his or the station's reputation, just from a human resources standpoint this is semi-r****ded, especially for anyone not named Chris Matthews (and therefore easily replaceable).
I think Keith has had a reputation of being a bit of rebel, and feisty with his bosses all the way back to his ESPN days. He has never played the role of compliant employee at any point during his career.
It's all about emails... http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser..._griffin_know_msnbc_through_through_38333.asp "This is an unconventional play. We know that, and that's the beauty of it," a senior NBC News executive told TVNewser today. "Dan is a guy who knows this place through and through. The same is true for Phil Griffin," the new executive-in-charge. The last time NBC looked for a new leader of MSNBC, it looked outside, to ABC and CNN vet Rick Kaplan. This time, it looked inside, and turned to Abrams and Griffin, who have spent at least nine years each at the cable channel. "When you look at that combined knowledge, nobody's going to know the organization better," the exec said. Abrams has had an eye on a leadership role for more than a year. "He was shooting e-mails to us with his thoughts of what was going on at MSNBC and the strengths and weaknesses," the exec said. "He knows this thing through and through." "Anybody who makes a decision to give up their on-air show in order to do something like this...to me that's a selfless act and it proves his commitment to the job," the exec added. With Griffin overseeing MSNBC, the channel will have an executive-in-charge based at 30 Rock for the first time since the days of Andy Lack. "Everybody in the organization knows Phil, on both sides of the river and all around the world," the exec said. Griffin's cable news mantra is passion. He'll try to infuse it throughout the day on MSNBC. "Think of what's gone on at the Today Show," the exec said. "When he left MSNBC and came over to Today, GMA was within spitting distance. Phil deserves an awful lot of credit for turning that ship around... he absolutely drew on his cable experience." Griffin was formerly the executive producer of Hardball. The show is now one of MSNBC's two primetime "success stories." "Take a look at the ratings growth that you've seen at MSNBC over the past couple of years," the exec said. "We're operating from a position of strength."
