His ratings on the rise (up 21% in the ratings since this time last year), his "Special Comments" circulating all over cyberspace, his outspokenness a sanity-saver for disenfranchised liberals and anti-neocons everywhere -- these are reason enough for NBC to reward Keith Olbermann amply.
It will be interesting to see what the network does, now that Olbermann's contract is up for re-negotiation in March.
Dubbed by many as a modern day Edward R. Murrow, criticized by others as the Left-Wing' answer to Rush Limbaugh, Olbermann has said of himself, "I'm not trying to whip up a political frenzy. If I was out there every night beating people over the head with this, I would become a Rush Limbaugh. That's not my goal. I don't make the facts up to fit the political viewpoint that happens to parallel what it is I'm trying to express."
My own feeling is that all of America owes Olbermann thanks for, as Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson put it, all he has done "to reenergize the fourth estate and its role to be a skeptic of authority."
According to Aaron Barnhart, "it's worth asking if [Olbermann's] brand of journalism will be, and should be, the future of TV journalism." The answer is a deafening "yes" -- with the caveat that Olbermann continue to use the facts to keep everyone, regardless of party or ideology, honest.
Photo Credit: Keith "Bloggermann" Olbermann. (MSNBC.com)
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