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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.

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Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:24 AM

To clarify, by "mentioned it once"

I'm referring to the media's biased treatment of Hillary Clinton, not Maddow's role in it.

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