In an angry commentary on April 25, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann accused Rudolph Giuliani of using the language of Osama bin Laden with "the same chilling nonchalance of the madman" to argue that Republicans would keep Americans safer than Democrats from terror.
Eight days later, Olbermann hosted MSNBC's coverage of the first debate among Republican candidates for president.
Olbermann's popularity and evolving image as an idealogue has led NBC ...
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Good lede -- the first grafs sum up the story. This is a thoughtful exposition of questions that are simmering and stewing throughout the media. Having worked with some of those reporters who wouldn't vote, self-proclaimed purists of the profession, I can say without question that bias still showed up their stories. Far better, it would seem to me, would be a mandatory listing at the bottom of each story in which the writer candidly noted possible bias: "I've known the interviewee for six years and have lunch with him three or four times a year," "I'm a Democrat writing about Republicans," and so forth.
