Here at Watchdog Milwaukee we try to stay true to the hard edge that legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow loved to report on.

Over the past few years the corporate media has become corrupted and blinded to what news is and to what Murrow would have demanded had he been running the show.  The media has given Republicans a pass and gifted years of positive coverage honeymoon periods to the GOP.

Keith Olbermann finally said no.  Olbermann had a Murrow moment recently that was shockingly honest.  Like Murrow, who took to the airwaves to expose Senator Joe McCarthy as a fraud and called McCarthy's witch hunts exactly what they were, Olbermann has taken President Bush to task for his incompetence handling 9/11 and the wars that followed.

Olberman is now like the boy who said the Emporer has no clothes — a truth sayer who said what he saw and was unafraid to express himself.

Olbermann exposed the Fox News snipe against President Clinton for what it was — a shameless right wing attack on a man who tried to do his best and was more successful that the current President, who hasn't even tried.   

Olbermann could be our generation's Murrow. 

Hopefully Olbermann is not silenced by MSNBC.  I don't watch much cable television news, but after hearing the passionate and articulate Olbermann, I can see setting the TV to MSNBC more often. 

Link: A textbook definition of cowardice - Keith Olbermann comments on Bill Clinton's Fox News interview