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Rachel Maddow is the flip side of the Cronkite coin. The fact that she was allowed to "helm" coverage of his death is about all we need to know about just how far downhill the (former) news media have slid since Cronkite's day. I daresay that, unlike you, Uncle Walter wasn't cheering her on from his grave. The man did have standards and integrity was the name of his game.
Bob Somerby's Daily Howler has had quite a lot to say about Maddow's performance pieces and her frequent playing to the new rubes of the "left". Let's just say Somerby doesn't exactly give her rave reviews. Instead, he sees Maddow and her ilk as accelerating a dynamic of deterioration. Cronkite would undoubtedly have seen Maddow in much the same light.
