LA Times Mistakes Olbermann For Jackass

by Steve Krakauer | 11:52 am, August 21st, 2009

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olbermann_8-21 The Los Angeles Times issued a correction today sure to give MSNBC haters a laugh.

In their TV grid yesterday, they put MTV’s Jackass in the MSNBC line-up where Countdown with Keith Olbermann was supposed to go. That’s right – Jackass instead of Olbermann. Here’s the full correction:

FOR THE RECORD

TV listings: The Prime-Time TV grid in Thursday’s Calendar section mistakenly listed MTV’s “Jackass” show on the MSNBC cable schedule at 7 and 10 p.m. where instead MSNBC’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” should have been listed.

In noting the correction on the LAT Top of the Ticket blog, Andrew Malcolm had some fun with the mistake: “A few thousand people might have tuned into MSNBC, the Obama administration’s favorite cable channel, expecting to see a “Jackass” show, and instead they’d have found Olbermann. Worse, what if nobody noticed the difference?”

Here’s our question: was this the work of an editor, jokingly putting the show there for fun and forgetting to take it out before it went to print? And will the LAT make the “Worst Persons” list tonight?

(h/t Johnny Dollar)

keith olbermann, Los Angeles Times, msnbc

TfT

I think you need to change the title of your article to: “LA Times Finally Tells the Truth”
Tom Benson

Why that’s an insult to jackasses everywhere!
ChrisNH

The picture of Olbermann above is believed to be the only one showing him smiling.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Holster/1001426106 Gregory Holster

Keith Oberman seems to be very unsure of himself.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Isaac-Pigott/589537929 Isaac Pigott

So, did ratings go up?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ron-Taylor/1463020842 Ron Taylor

Olbermann is the biggest joke on television.
chagnasty

I’ve gotta say, I’m neither here nor there on Olbermann. Sometimes he has some good stuff to say, but most of the time he just seems like the mirror mirror Bill O’Reiley. This is one of those times.

The funniest thing though, is that the LAT doesn’t do their own TV listings, basically no newspapers in the US do. The LAT is owned by the Tribune group, and the Tribune group owns Tribune Media Services which is basically the only company that does all the TV listings in the US. It’s based out of a small town in upstate NY. I know this because I’m from that small town originally and have a relative who has worked for Tribune Media (and the company that it was before Tribune bought them out) for 20 years. There’s basically no way in hell that ANYONE at the LAT was responsible for this. Maybe someone in Upstate NY (my hometown is very conservative), but definitely not at the LAT. Kudos to Malcolm for parrying Olbermann’s jackassery.
EJK

LA Times just finally telling it like it is…. and that smile on Olberman’s picture above was probably photo shopped…