Olbermann As The “Opposition Press”
Keith Olbermann tried to avoid commentary. But “there’s a point at which you can’t sit inside a burning building without shouting ‘fire,’” he tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.![]()
More: “Jay Rosen, a media critic and journalism professor at New York University, believes that Olbermann’s show is a fulfillment of his 2004 prediction of the rise of an ‘opposition press’ in response to a deepening cultural divide and what he called bland media coverage of the Bush administration during its first term…![]()
‘In the last year, Keith Olbermann has basically put the idea of ‘opposition press’ into practice,’ said Rosen. ‘Did journalism collapse? No. But his ratings went up, and a lot of things got said that needed to be said.’”

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Nadine Cheung
Editor, The Job Post
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