According to Nielsen Media Research, an average night finds only about 350,000 people watching this show. This is ridiculous, because it is arguably the most interesting newscast currently being produced in the U.S.
Every weeknight, Olbermann reviews what he thinks are the five most prominent news stories of the day, working his way down from the most vital to the most ridiculous, which means that in a thirty-minute span he can shift from a quietly respectful interview with the father of a soldier whose coffin was accidentally shipped back from Iraq as air freight to a tongue-in-cheek rant about how Japan is humiliating the U.S. in the development of cool robots.
Even though Olbermann retains the same taste for historical obscurities and Lettermanesque jackassery that his career in sports reporting was built on, his coverage of major stories is grave and inquisitive, and when he occasionally stops the show for a full-blown editorial-like his blistering rant about the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina-he is riveting. Besides, it's hard not to like an anchor who refers to items about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes as "Stories My Producers Are Making Me Do".
Every weeknight, Olbermann reviews what he thinks are the five most prominent news stories of the day, working his way down from the most vital to the most ridiculous, which means that in a thirty-minute span he can shift from a quietly respectful interview with the father of a soldier whose coffin was accidentally shipped back from Iraq as air freight to a tongue-in-cheek rant about how Japan is humiliating the U.S. in the development of cool robots.
Even though Olbermann retains the same taste for historical obscurities and Lettermanesque jackassery that his career in sports reporting was built on, his coverage of major stories is grave and inquisitive, and when he occasionally stops the show for a full-blown editorial-like his blistering rant about the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina-he is riveting. Besides, it's hard not to like an anchor who refers to items about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes as "Stories My Producers Are Making Me Do".
