​Media reporter and movie star David Carr takes on a giant ego in a feature from this weekend's New York Times Magazine, posted online today, about Current TV host Keith Olbermann. After Olbermann's unceremonious exit from MSNBC, the loudmouth anchor spent most of year the silent except for on the internet, where he yelled a bunch and berated random bloggers, blog commenters and political enemies, like he used to do on television. But starting this week he's back on the air, albeit to much fewer viewers, and so in the ramp up, he gets the big profile treatment in a premiere weekly magazine. Unfortunately, for all of Olbermann's bombast, this one is bombshell-less, mostly more of what we already know. More inside Press Clips, our daily media column, plus Anthony Weiner's own stake in the Times and new rules for working at The Daily.

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​Last we heard from Keith Olbermann, he was leaving his MSNBC show Countdown, in something of a hush-hush move that probably had something to do with Comcast pushing him out. He was contractually barred from talking about it. Today, Olbermann is expected to announce that he is joining Current TV -- what the New York Times calls a "public affairs channel" -- which is partially owned by Al Gore. You take what you can get, maybe? Or you take a chance and change the world. Yeah!

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​Keith Olbermann's departure from MSNBC is being euphemistically called a "negotiated separation," but this for the same man who was called "a jerk and difficult and brutal" by his boss. The New York Times has more details in this morning's paper, the most concrete being the fact that Olbermann will be kept off of television for "six to nine months" and he is "apparently forbidden to discuss his departure." Details of the gag order are hard to come by and it's unclear if it has an expiration date. Meanwhile, Olbermann's enemies are free to yap about how much the guy sucks to work with!

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​Keith Olbermann, the host of MSNBC's "Countdown" since 2003, resigned from the program suddenly last night. Olbermann announced on the air that he would be leaving the show immediately, his time slot to be filled by Lawrence O'Donnell. What happened?

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​Have you ever received a piece of mail with a tracking number and you know it's there but everyone keeps passing the buck off to someone else until someone finally says "Oh, it'll show up in a day or two!"? That just happened to me for the second time. I am going to Fucking. Kill. Someone. Press Clips, Day 18, DeathRage Lunchtime Edition, right here.

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​In the interest of not moving our media microscope, here is Keith Olbermann breaking his silence, via Twitter, on being suspended by MSNBC.

​Keith Olbermann was only suspended because he refused to apologize on-camera for making political donations without first seeking approval, according to Politico, specifically Mike Allen's anonymous network sources. MSNBC was prepared to let Olbermann keep hosting Countdown if he addressed the situation, Allen reports. He also hints that Olbermann's job may be in danger.

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​Whoops! Looks like the guy they tried to replace the now-suspended Keith Olbermann with tonight isn't going to be clocking in at MSNBC tonight because we noticed he -- like Olbermann -- doesn't meet MSNBC's supposed "standards" (that John Cook at Gawker just found out might not be getting any kind of correct interpretive treatment by MSNBC to begin with, which is hysterical). As such, we've decided to go out on a limb, and try to help MSNBC with staffing up tonight's show with five potential candidates:

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Olbs at the ballgame

​MSNBC blowhard Keith Olbermann appears not once, but twice in this weekend's New York Times Book Review, most notably assessing Jane Leavy's The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, but most interestingly in a small article about his Yankees fandom. Olbermann is the perfect person to review the Mantle book, the editors write, because, "Well into his 20s, Keith Olbermann was an 'insatiable' Yankees fan." He even threw his radio out the window.

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​Was last night a particularly strange episode of Countdown, or is Keith Olbermann always like this? While often difficult to watch the screamy liberal pundit get unilaterally screamy and stunningly hypocritical, Keith Olbermann is often correct about certain things and often has very smart people on his show with him. He's also sometimes funny, like last night, as he grunted like he was shitting when impersonating Rush Limbaugh, which was before he spent at least a full minute making fun of some guy's terrible sideburns. Lucklily, that guy wasn't former Wonkette/Gawker blogger and current Salon writer Alex Pareene, who was on Olbermann's show last night once Olbermann was through chuckling about sideburns, so Pareene could laugh about those sideburns.

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