Here's Some Good News

From TVNewser:

In the first quarter of 2006, MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann beat CNN's Paula Zahn Now in the 25-54 demographic. "This marks MSNBC's first quarterly primetime victory over CNN in the demo in almost five years (2001 MSNBC Investigates beat CNN at 8 p.m. ET)," MSNBC's press release said today.

Countdown averaged 164,000 total viewers in the quarter, up 41% from Q1 2005. Zahn averaged 158,000 demo viewers (down 33 percent), according to MSNBC. Bill O'Reilly averaged 450,000 in the demo (down 24 percent).

Olbermann also beat Headline News star Nancy Grace in the demo. According to program ranker data, Grace averaged 154,000 demo viewers...

Here is an example of why Olbermann's numbers are so high -- it's his report on how the record is clear that Bush wanted to go to war with Iraq, even though Bush claimed a couple weeks ago that "no president wants war."

It shouldn't be too surprising that Olbermann is getting good numbers. After all, Bush is a very unpopular president, and Olbermann knows how to tap into that. In fact, he appears to be the only member of the mainstream media willing to aggressively go after Bush. Hopefully, CNN will get the message and start doing the same type of stuff.

And check out this exchange between Alec Baldwin and Heil Hannity (thanks for the link, Slic[k]). It's pretty good. Here's an article from Baldwin discussing the exchange.