In the era of for-profit News Divisions on the public airwaves and for-profit news-adjacent programming on cable television and for-profit ‘news’ in their name but not in their shows programming on cable and the internet — there are still some good news reporters out there.
For print media, I prefer the brash and ‘just the facts, mam’ style of Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone.
From network News I like Jose Diaz-Balart, who anchors NBC sometimes and the PBS Newshour with Judy Woodruff.
From Cable News/News-adjacent, I still prefer Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell.
Which is no surprise, because the guy who I always think of as my News Source when it comes to the big issues which should matter to every American regardless of Party, is Keith Olbermann, who brought Rachel Maddow to the world via MSNBC during his nearly eight year stint on that network which ended in 2011.
But Keith has come back to politics via Gentleman’s Quarterly and Youtube and Twitter. Originally he was scheduled for once a week is my understanding, on his The Closer with Keith Olbermann web show, which started up during the 2016 presidential campaign.
But since the election, and the rise of Indivisible as a truly massive, grassroots movement, his show is now taglined The Resistance and boy, oh boy, has that flaming, fighting Man of Many Fierce and Awesome Words returned!
This latest episode (available at this time only on Twitter) he points out the ludicrous posturing of Trump and his Administration hacks on the issues of religious and racial bigotry as part and parcel of their words and actions. Official US federal government words and actions — in your name, and mine.
Listen and then go attend an Indivisible event near you — Become the change you seek and we can build a better America, one voter, one elected Officeholder, at a time.
Watch older episodes via Keith’s GQ’s Youtube channel
or on the GQ site at The Closer with Keith Olbermann
The Youtube version, because of comments on the Twitter video ability to play through: