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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.
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  • Thursday, August 21, 2008 08:36 AM

    The New Republic

    It has been impossible for any literate person beyond the generations of toadies and lick-spittles Martin Peretz has hired over the years to take The New Republic seriously for at least the last quarter-century.

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