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Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:00 AM

The decay of serious journalism and Rachel Maddow's new show

The New Republic -- of all places -- laments the loss of "nuance or intellectual rigor" on television as epitomized by MSNBC's troubling decision to give an actual liberal her own show.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, August 21, 2008 09:38 AM

    Excellent, now we'll get more insightful commentary like this

    “So, do you mean that you should stay in the race ’cause someone might assassinate Barack Obama, or do you just use Bobby Kennedy’s assassination as a convenient placeholder to help you remember that sometimes the California primary is in June? Yeah. Wow.”

    http://www.correntewire.com/less_than_tactful#comment-90827

    "I think that it makes you think that it would be very awkward for a vice president to be on a ticket—for a vice presidential candidate to be on a presidential candidate’s ticket after she’s made repeated references to his potential death. Yes, that would be weird."

    http://www.correntewire.com/fith_watch_rachel_maddow_edition

    Maddow's done what it takes to qualify for the msnbc boy's club, so Tim Russert is resting quite comfortably.

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