MSNBC President Phil Griffin tries to explain away Keith Olbermann’s plummeting ratings thusly:

He [Griffin] attributes Olbermann’s January ratings slip to a news cycle in which international news, rather than domestic politics, was the No. 1 story. "On big, breaking international news, CNN tends to do better than us. They did a great job in Haiti, and I tip my hat to them," he says. "We’re the place for politics, and there are times when politics does great, and there are times when it doesn’t."

Domestic politics wasn’t a big story in January? What about the, er, special election in Massachusetts and the State of the Union? Griffin tips his hat to CNN for covering Haiti but doesn’t mention (of course) that FOX had its biggest January ratings ever thanks in large part to its political coverage.
http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2010/02/03/msnbcs-baghdad-bob/

He can try to spin it all he wants. It’s just a matter of time before he and his liberal loons are out of work looking for a job.