OLBERMAN On NBC Nightly News?

[kpete]

May 31, 2007 Next Post | Previous Post
Brian Williams Bites His Tongue
Posted by Matthew Felling


(CBS)"I think you get one of those a career in my line of work," he said. "Cronkite chose to use his chit on the Vietnam War that he witnessed. But I think you only get one."

--Brian Williams, talking with the Chicago Tribune’s Phil Rosenthal, sharing his views about whether network news anchors should branch out into opinion. Williams is reportedly interested in having Keith Olbermann do occasional essays on "The NBC

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/05/31/publiceye/entry2871480.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&source=RSS&attr=PublicEye_2871480

[NYCGirl]

1. Yes, that was part of Keith's new contract. NT

[MadBadger]

8. That and primetime news specials on NBC I believe.

[Fleshdancer]

2. ooooh, that sounds PERFECT!

I'll support that :bounce:

[eleny]

3. Wow! What an opportunity

[Tejanocrat]

4. This raises my opinion of Williams

[Botany]

5. Wonder if Dick Cheney has heard the good news yet?

[Blue Belle]

6. That would be fantastic!

I hope it happens and they don't try to control the shit out of his message. Maybe they're starting understand it's advantageous to pay attention to regular americans and not try to win the love of the Fox news sheeple.

[Dollface]

7. Maybe he can do editorial comment like Eric Sevareid.

Remember when news programs used to separate editorial comment from the news?

[Z_I_Peevey]

9. Clearly labeled opinion pieces. That seems so long ago.

Will we ever return to something resembling real journalism?

It seems impossible that it was only in the 1980s when we were worred about unprecedented media consolidation, with most of the nation's media being held by a "frightening" number of less than 100.

Man, those were the days.