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KEITH OLBERMANN

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AGE: 48
OCCUPATION: News anchor, commentator
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0

PRO: Host of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, which has adopted an opinion-oriented format critical of Republicans and conservatives in direct competition with Fox's The O'Reilly Factor.

CON: Despite increasing viewership 82% over the past year to an average of 706,000 total viewers, Countdown remains a distant second to O'Reilly, who averages 2.45 million viewers.

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