Keith Olbermann and Glenn Beck, the firebrands of right- and left-wing talk, are a lot richer now than they were a year ago. But they're also less relevant.
With Olbermann moving to Current TV and Beck leaving Fox for a subscription internet service, both have fallen out of the national conversation. The power of broadcast and cable has, in this case, trumped the power of their personal brands.
Olbermann “is not on my radar anymore,” said Alissa Quart, a columnist for the Columbia Journalism Review and a senior editor at The Atavist, referring to the bombastic host who commands an audience on Current TV that's less than a third the size of his MSNBC viewership.