Keith Olbermann went off on Campbell Brown yesterday in a kind of ridiculous rant.

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The crazy thing about Olbermann's comment is that it completely echoes something that Glenn Beck was saying yesterday as well. I watched a few seconds of Beck and he was going off about how hard it was to be in his shoes because he has to give this opinion and fight for the truth. Olbermann has a point that CNN doesn't offer a lot but that doesn't really make him innocent of being in the echo chamber. Yes, Olbermann does often apologize for his mistakes, like when he went on the Daily Show and said, "You know what, you're right," Olbermann said to Stewart. "I have been a little over the top lately. Point taken. Sorry." after he commented that Senator Scott Brown was "an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, tea-bagging supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees." Good for him?

Brown and Olbermann are both right; when going against personalities like O'Reilly and Olbermann, CNN isn't going to be able to compete with news that those other channels have been running all day. However what we SHOULD see is something with more insight and not more spin. There's a saying that the job of the teacher is to protect his pupils from his own prejudices. The same goes for news anchors; especially ones who claim to be fighting the good fight (and, obviously, only things they agree with are the "good" fight.) Still, it's just hilarious to me that, in his defense of himself from being like O'Reilly, Olbermann echoed Beck and then got on a soapbox and blasted CNN as bad and his job as the more difficult job. No, Keith, the difficult job is how to actually present the truth and both sides of the story AND be able to draw viewers. You can't do it; that's why you rant and rave and hope people tune in.