I still expect Keith Olbermann to one day do something desperate on live TV (such as exposing himself) and in a fit of psychotic rage – be carried out by security guards and guys in white uniforms. If we really want to “torture” prisoners just strap them into chairs and make them listen to one of Olbermann’s “Speshul Komments”.
Keith Olbermann: As the Spittle Flies
by Stuart Schwartz
“As the Spittle Flies” is nearing the end of its run.
This cable news soap opera — a.k.a. “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” — is alienating viewers as quickly as the angry and demanding diva has pushed away friends, family and colleagues over the course of his tumultuous career.
When will the show end? Hard to tell. But the increasingly wild-eyed Keith is drawing rubberneckers in the same fashion as a six-car crackup beside the interstate. One media columnist observes a “creeping mania” brought on by plunging ratings and terminal jealousy.
According to TV by the Numbers, the foam-at-the-mouth commentator seems determined to do to his audience what a bio-toxin does to a small town in Iowa in the recent hit zombie movie, “The Crazies” — empty the homes. February saw ratings plunge beneath last year by 43% among 25-54 viewers and 29% in total viewership.
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But his audience grew in the same way that his 24-year-old girlfriend moved into his Trump Palace apartment for love, not the six-figure salary and on-air slot that NBC provides to every California coed with no experience and party-hearty Internet photos.
But this is the age of new media, and Nielsen ratings are readily available online. And a simple check of the weeks surrounding those dates show aggregate ratings declines ranging from 10% to almost 20%. NewsBusters took a look at his numbers and concluded that Countdown has been in “free-fall” since Obama’s inauguration.
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