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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 10:59 AM

@burlydee

I didn't watch much msnbc or listen to much Air America once both proved so incredibly biased during the primaries, but I caught and transcribed the two examples noted in my first post in this thread (on page 7) in just a few minutes of listening/viewing to Maddow:

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/21/tnr/permalink/6a0c15c9b1b901b800ea805b87217169.html

Also, after one of the debates, Maddow said that an answer Hillary gave about her Iraq AUMF vote "insults me personally." Given the consistent bashing that Hillary got from Olbermann, Matthews, Russert, and company, and the sampling of comments I've encountered, I'd be quite surprised if these are close to the only ones.

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