First they introduced that "Doc-Bloc" at 10pm every night (oh boy, more shows about prisons and teachers who rape kids!), then they changed their on-screen graphics, and now they've made it very easy for me to watch CNN in the afternoon.
Rita Cosby is anchoring at 1pm.
Now, nothing against Cosby personally. I'm sure she's a nice woman and newsperson. But...her voice. I'm sorry, but there's no possible way that I can listen to her Brenda Vacarro-meets-Grover-from-Sesame-Street voice for two, three, four hours a day. I don't know if this is a permanent move or if she's filling in for someone, but if she's on, I'm watching CNN.
It's getting more and more clear that the only reason to watch MSNBC at all is for Countdown With Keith Olbermann, which has quickly become Must-See television.
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9-28-2006 @ 3:41PM
Michael said...
I couldn't agree with you more about Rita Cosby. I'll even give you she's a talented journalist, but the voice just takes it all away. She should be a writer, producer, behind the scenes, anything but a talking head. I generally watch MSNBC from 2 to 3, but I actually opted for reruns of "Still Standing" to Rita.
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9-28-2006 @ 4:00PM
Adrienne Gilbreath said...
She should be behind the scenes. I HAVE to turn the station when she's on air. It's the same as commercials with the OXY Clean guy who yells all the time. I can't handle it and won't.
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9-28-2006 @ 4:05PM
Allison said...
Finally someone else agrees about the dreadful "doc block"!
It was my understanding that when Rita's previous show was dumped there was intense negotiations for her to keep a presence at MSNBC. Uggh! I agree, CNN all the way until Keith.
Now what happens to Chris Jansing?
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9-28-2006 @ 4:06PM
Wil said...
She is not a nice woman. She's an evil, screeching harpy who is illustrative of the problem with cable news today.
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9-28-2006 @ 4:12PM
Micra said...
MSNBC get exhausted. They can't develop any good idea. MSNBC have nothing to do just leave the market
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9-28-2006 @ 4:50PM
TVgenius said...
"She is not a nice woman. She's an evil, screeching harpy who is illustrative of the problem with cable news today."
No, that's Nancy Grace.
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9-28-2006 @ 4:49PM
mike said...
If you want self-absorbtion, hatred, bigotry, lies, over rated self-worth and nonsense, Keith Olberman is the source.
Fortunately, his ratings are so low, he is insignificant. Except on TV Squad.
PS, rita crosby is useless.
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9-28-2006 @ 5:18PM
WC said...
I would like Mike to give just one(1) lie, bigoted comment, or hateful comment by Keith Olbermann. Just one. Just off the top of my head I can think of a few dozen uttered and recorded by O'Really, who I presume is his choice for talking-head news programming.
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9-28-2006 @ 6:03PM
sdm said...
didn't olberman call chris wallace a monkey the other night? that's not very nice.
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9-28-2006 @ 6:01PM
elf said...
WC, you're right that Olbermann hasn't lied or made any bigoted comments, but he has made many hateful comments. Granted, it's liars and bigots that Olbermann hates and skewers, as would any real American. KO's primary targets are the Bush administration, for whom truth is something that can change every day, and Fox News, the propoganda arm of the Republican party where the facts of a story are always secondary to their spin.
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9-29-2006 @ 1:22AM
DS said...
I agree calling someone a monkey isn't very nice. But at the same time, I can understand Keith's frustration. Things have gotten out of hand, political dissent is being demonized left and right, what can only be called war profiteering is causing some members of the government to take money home in truckloads. There are key democrats that still feel like they lead the house & senate, and the administration just says whatever it feels like, knowing that the press will cover it with no regards for its truth or if it even makes sense.
So Keith has been doing what "free press" should do, and that is give factual evidence to support itself. He gets a little arrogant at times, but I can at least know that I don't have to logon to the internet after every "news" story to fact check what is being said.
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9-29-2006 @ 8:21AM
Dee said...
I wonder if Rita has a medical condition that is making her voice so strained. I heard her recently on a Fox 9/11 special and on that day when she called in a report she wasn't as breathy.
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