Keith Olbermann

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Could you expand on that a bit? What makes you think that?

The reason for which he got fired. Demanding expensive studio equiptment and getting into an aggressive argument with his bosses in which he stated that the show could only exist with him.

To be honest I didn`t see that much of him, but what I saw was that in the early years of his show (the few which I saw) he mainly gave his political comments.

Then later (of which I saw more) he started demanding the resignation of a political figure holding office almoust every week, including the mayor of New York, Bloomberg, after the Occupy protests.

Of course that is his right to say so, and yes I dont know that much about american journalism and opinion "journalism".

But that seemed a bit megalomeniac to me.

The people doing this aren't concerned with logic; they're concerned with shaping public opinion and media. The extremist left market hasn't really caught on, though.

I am still a bit "confused" when someone is trying to "shape" public opinion. Not that journalists, politicians and activists here dont publish their opinion, but they mostly underline that their goal is to start debate.

I think the main reason why left wing news is not catching on because it doesnt have a that big economic targeting group.

Fox concentrates on a certain group of 40 to endless year old white people, who mainly rely on TV for their source of news and are comfortable with having their own views constantly represented to them.

The group which MSNBC is trying to target is younger and uses far more diverse methods of gaining news, like for example the internet.
Aswell as they are less comfortabel with having their views constantly repeated to them and look for confrontation and discussion.

Picked that up in some journal some time ago.