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MSNBC suspended political analyst Mark Halperin for an off-color remark about President Barack Obama on "Morning Joe" Thursday. "I thought he was a dick yesterday," Halperin said on Thursday's show during a discussion about Obama's news conference the day before.

Keith Olbermann has returned to the air promising "a newscast of contextualization." Five months after his abrupt departure from MSNBC, the outspokenly liberal host premiered on the Current TV network Monday night awash in media attention to his arrival at a new home.

MSNBC's Ed Schultz is off the air for more than a week after calling a fellow talk-show host a vulgar term.

Keith Olbermann's exit from MSNBC appeared abrupt to viewers of his show, but the talk-show host and his network were involved "in a relationship that's been failing for a long time," an NBC Universal executive said Saturday....

Keith Olbermann was MSNBC's most popular personality and single-handedly led its transformation to an outspoken, left-leaning cable news network in prime time. Despite that, he often seemed to be walking on a tightrope with his job.

His program, “Countdown,” is a megaphone for Democrats and the most popular program on MSNBC.

MSNBC has suspended prime-time host Keith Olbermann indefinitely without pay for contributing to the campaigns of three Democratic candidates this election season.

In the light of the recent ratings news--CNN implodes, FOX soars, MSNBC does okay--it's worth asking a question that no one seems to have a good answer to: Why is conservative media crushing liberal media?

MSNBC's Chris Matthews says President Barack Obama has done so much to heal racial divisions that he "forgot he was black" while watching his State of the Union address....

BNO News, the news wire service famous for publishing breaking news stories through its @BreakingNews Twitter feed, just announced that it plans to launch a new news wire service early next year.