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Hell didn’t freeze over, but it is a miracle! Rachel Maddow gets evening show on MSNBC

No Comments 20 August 2008Tracy Van Slyke

Update: What Justin says.

We called it a while ago…
We’ve been following her rise on Countdown with Keith Olbermann…
We’ve seen the glowing articles and commentary about her increase….

And then in a surprise post yesterday, Mr. Olbermann jumped over the MSNBC flaks to announce to the world that Rachel Maddow is getting her own show!

A couple hours later, Mr. Olbermann interviewed Ms. Maddow on Countdown. Watch below.

I’m relieved to hear that Rachel is continuing her radio show on Air America. In this day and age, part and parcel of being a high-impact personality is being able to engage and move different audiences on a multiple-platform level.

Ok–so a couple questions.
1) Who are the producers that are going to be booking guests? Let’s get ahead of the game on this one! Anyone have any scoop?
2) Who are some of the top “individuals” in the prog. media world that we would recommend to be guests on the show to start building our new high-impact personalities? (Let’s breed them!)
3) With this new forum, what are some of the most important topics/issues that should be a priority for Ms. Maddow throughout the year? It doesn’t hurt to start giving our opinion now!

Congrats to Rachel, Keith and MSNBC for such a brilliant move! And congrats to the progressive audience (and even the conservative audience!) for getting to engage with a brilliant new television host!

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Beautiful Music: When two progressive journalists come together on a major news channel

2 Comments 19 May 2008Tracy Van Slyke

So, yes, for some reason I’ve been on an MSNBC kick lately–or maybe because that’s where some of the most interesting stuff has been happening. But I promise that this will be my last post of the week with MSNBC footage.

But I thought I’d note that Chris Hayes, Washington Editor of The Nation, was a guest on Countdown with Keith Olbermann Friday night. Chris was discussing the two faces of Sen. John McCain. Now yes, that’s noteworthy (and definitely worth learning about), but what was really interesting for me (as a a media geek) was who he was talking with. Keith was absent from the show that day and in his stead was our fast rising progressive journalist and TV personality star, Rachel Maddow (one of the high-impact personalities we are featuring in our book).

Let me ask you, when was the last time you saw two progressive journalists dominating a major cable channel for even 5 minutes and having an interesting, journalistic, topical conversation that didn’t involve defending themselves from loud-mouth pundits or having to scream over the conservative blow hards? If you know the last time, let me know, but I surely can’t think of it. I’m sure that this has to do with MSNBC’s bottom-line decision to go more “left”–but I’m not going to argue with it. Watch the clip.