I’m quite peaved over MSNBC’s decision to demote Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews. Variety reported on it this morning. I agree fully that MSNBC’s coverage had become exceedingly biased towards liberals. It was not balanced journalism. I don’t hold MSNBC, Olbermann, or Matthews accountable however. MSNBC only did what they had to do to compete in a cut-throat world of 24-hour news media. MSNBC chose to become the political liberal network in primetime. It was a move designed to combat the likes of conservative FOX’s O’Reilly Factorand the equally satanic CNN’s Glen Beck.

The FCC is to blame for the current ridiculousness of news media. I’m disgusted that you can’t even watch the news if you tune into CNN’s Headline News in the evening. Instead you’re subjected to relentless hours of Showbiz Tonight, Headline Prime, and Nancy Grace. 

The bottom line is that news media need to be cleaned up. They have a constitutional obligation to provide unbiased news. Right now there is so much spin - politically, militarily, religiously, ethnically, and economically that it is almost impossible to decipher fact from opinion. If you’re going to demote Olbermann and Matthews, you need to make Fox toss O’Reilly too. Now’s the time to clean up our country’s media outlets. It cannot be about news ratings; it needs to be about credibility and public service.

I always like to play a fun game with reading news. Visit the websites for Fox News, BBC UK, and Al Jazeera. If you mix the three together, you’ll probably get a fairly decent idea what exactly is going on in the world.