With much help from the sports-oriented blogosophere, Olbermann Watch has been following a particularly complicated case of sports-misreporting. The details are all here, but what I thought was most significant for TCG readers is OW's strong conclusion, which also sums up KO's MO in areas way beyond sports:
"The shoddy journalism exemplified in the Pujols-Mihlfeld report which ran last June - lifting material directly from web sites (often without attribution), not bothering to do the most basic fact-checking it, not contacting subjects and providing them an opportunity to reply, using highly questionable information to launch hyperbolic attacks - is precisely the kind of reporting that led me to launch Olbermann Watch in 2004. The sad fact is that Keith airs these kinds of phony reports as a matter of routine. Although we report on Keith Olbermann's erratic fact-challenged form of 'journalism' on this site every day, this case is so transparently despicable and Keith's claims so egregiously slanderous that we are taking the unusual (for us) step of demanding that Olbermann stop side-stepping the issue and air a correction and apology TONIGHT!"
