An Anchor Who Stars in the Highlight Reels
Keith Olbermann’s Show Has Its Debut on ESPN2.
After a long, troubled odyssey around the world of cable news, Keith Olbermann returned to ESPN on Monday, promising fans he would not talk about politics anymore.
It turns out that he also isn’t going to talk all that much about sports.
Mostly, he is going to talk about Keith Olbermann.
That’s at least what the premiere — and the title — of “Olbermann,” a live hourlong show on ESPN2, suggests. Mr. Olbermann ranted with characteristic sarcasm and brio about all kinds of things, but the subjects he chose seemed also to serve as allegories for his own experiences as a cable star turned celebrity flameout. As he put it in a diatribe about newspapers feeding on sensationalism, “Every reporter should spend one day as the only story in the world.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/arts/television/keith-olbermanns-show-has-its-debut-on-espn2.html?hp