Well, not everyone loved Keith Olbermann's little on-air account of his cancer scare. He's being criticized on some of the journalism websites, mostly for the supposed arrogance of talking about his own medical problems on a broadcast that, some feel, should have been all about Peter Jennings. Of perhaps more importance is that, according to accounts like this one, the segment was hated by MSNBC president Rick Kaplan, who felt it was a bad lead-in to the following show, which was the debut of Rita Cosby's new series. I don't know Mr. Kaplan, of course, but it seems to me that Olbermann is about the only thing that network has going for it.
In the meantime, several of you have sent me what you think are direct links to the Olbermann video on the MSNBC website. I thank you for your efforts but none of them worked. For the life of me, I don't understand why a website makes it difficult for someone like me to send someone like you to a specific item.
It makes only a wee bit more sense that the videos on the MSNBC website are, I'm informed by Mike Catron, impregnable to Mac users. Yeah, it's a Microsoft-affiliated site, so PC/Windows would seem to be the format of choice. But they're offering a service on that site and last I heard, there were more than a few people on the planet with that other, aberrant format.
If you're one and you want to see the video, I'll e-mail it to you. It's an ASF file so you'll have to have Windows Media Player for the Mac, which I understand you can download here, and which you might want anyway. The file is a little over 12MB in size and if you'd like me to send it your way, . [NOTE: If that link doesn't work for you, address an e-mail to newsfromme*gmail.com, but replace the asterisk in that address with one of them "at" signs.]