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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Joe Scarborough, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews as you may recognize them from their other roles in The Hills . Photo-illustration: Getty Images, wikipedia (Maddow); Courtesy of MTV For a long time, MSNBC head honcho Phil Griffin only had to worry about managing a verbal war with competitor Fox News . Then Tim Russert died. Russert was a man who, even in death, could...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
TVNewser has been tracking several on-air incidents among MSNBC anchors during the first couple of days of the DNC. (Read about them here , here and here .) Now MSNBC management is speaking out. MSNBC president Phil Griffin told Variety the Olbermann-Scarborough, Shuster-Scarborough, and Olbermann-Matthews clashes (some more tension-filled than others) have no significance. "Look, it...
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Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
With a "high-ranking" though otherwise anonymous MSNBC journalist telling the Politico Website that "The situation at our channel is about to blow up", MSNBC President Phil Griffin responds:"MSNBC does not have an ideology," Griffin said. "We hire smart people who...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
As more and more media outlets begin to notice the feud going on between some of MSNBC's highest profile on air personalities, a question begins rising to the surface: just how serious is it? Although the network's President Phil Griffin told the Wall Street Journal he wasn't concerned, others at MSNBC say this situation is much worse than management is letting on. As reported by Jossip...
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TV Barn (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
I knew Don Imus would never be coming back to MSNBC once its chief executive, Phil Griffin, told a reporter a few weeks ago (and confirmed later to me) that Joe Scarborough's "Morning Joe" had exceeded the ratings for the...
