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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 11:25 AM

    vastleft

    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.

    Yeah, I've disagreed with things Rachel has said before. I think the criticisms about Hillary's RFK comments were wildly off-base.

    Therefore, Rachel shouldn't have her own show, because only people with whom I agree on everything and never utter a misguided comment should be on TV.

    Who are your candidates? Lanny Davis? Mark Penn? Taylor Marhs? Who should get the slot instead?

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