TV Week's weak rankings

Check these recently released rankings of the most powerful people in television news.

A quick glance is all you need to figure out why these rankings are laughable.

Like him or hate him, there is no way Keith Olbermann is more powerful than Bill O'Reilly. Fox News could run a test pattern in O'Reilly's time slot and still bury Olbermann in the ratings.

O'Reilly has an enormous audience of people, both left and right, who watch him because they love him AND because they hate him.

Oh, and Olbermann is every bit as smug as O'Reilly--just for the record.

I like both of their shows, though.

(Either way, everyone knows that Hardball with Chris Matthews is the best show for hardcore POL junkies like myself.)

Forget the powerful, here are my top ten favorite TV news personalities:

1.) Patrick Buchanan
2.) Tim Russert
3.) Chris Matthews
4.) Bill O'Reilly
5.) Alan Colmes
6.) Dick Morris
7.) John McLaughlin
8.) Keith Olbermann
9.) Anderson Cooper
10.) Glenn Beck