Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
#1Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Posted: 12/9/09 at 10:17am
Damn, she is one of the best journalist we have.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/08/richard-cohen-rachel-maddow_n_385057.html
#2re: Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Posted: 12/9/09 at 10:21amShe's one of the best on-screen journalists - her show is always informative, probing and still manages to be fun.
#2re: Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Posted: 12/9/09 at 10:26amAgreed. I like how she never lets her show resort to a shouting match. She really listens to the person she's interviewing.
kelzama
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#3re: Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Posted: 12/9/09 at 10:27amhmmm. I consider her more of a commentator than a journalist. Her personal opinions shade the story too much to consider her a journalist in the classic sense.
#4re: Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Posted: 12/9/09 at 10:32amBut she does back up her opinions with stated and printed facts, which other news venues fail to do. I thought it was a well done interview. She is able to have a converstaion about the hot topics and it rarely resorts to shouting matches. Everyone is treated equally on her show, even those who decline her offers to come on the show!
#5re: Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Posted: 12/9/09 at 10:55am"I am reading from your book, dude."
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#6re: Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Posted: 12/9/09 at 11:36amRachel is an advocacy journalist...she's completely transparent about that and doesn't try to pretend otherwise.
#7re: Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Posted: 12/9/09 at 11:40amMadbrian, I loved when she said that!
#8re: Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Posted: 12/9/09 at 11:41am
"Rachel is an advocacy journalist...she's completely transparent about that and doesn't try to pretend otherwise."
I agree, and she still manages to be more fair & balanced than folks on that other network.
#9re: Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Posted: 12/9/09 at 12:11pm
Ditto to Blue and MB.
She has a clear point, and a bias.
I think she does a great job, but I find her more of a commentator than a news person.
#10re: Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Posted: 12/9/09 at 12:29pmLove Maddow. Love her hair. She is a gem. Maddow and Cooper are the only reporters/commentators I care to watch any more. And really, isn't that the way it should be?
#11re: Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Posted: 12/9/09 at 12:49pm
Her personal opinions shade the story too much to consider her a journalist in the classic sense.
This disqualifies pretty much every 24-hour news network anchor for being considered a journalist.
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#12re: Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Posted: 12/10/09 at 2:15am
This the same guy who showed how to 'cured' himself to Jason Jones on The Daily Show:
http://crooksandliars.com/2007/03/20/daily-show-can-you-cure-the-gay
To get on Rachel for feeling strongly about this because she is a lesbian and therefore too effusive means that surely a straight person should shut their yap over everything to do with heterosexual relationships because their personal opinions shade over the story.
Let's be honest, Rachel is the only 'straight newsperson'- I know, I know- to really give Cohen enough room to hang himself. None of which is because she's a lesbian but because she actually confronts people on the other side. Chris Matthews talks over them with his hot air and mercurial mood swings and Olbermann's guest are the same 'safe' circle of friends all on his side. Don't get me started on CNN much less FNC. She's pretty well-read and is one of the few who keep lost news items afloat. The guy who wrote the book about The Family organization owes her a lot of royalties.
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#13re: Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Posted: 12/10/09 at 2:31am
ALL news is biased. Anything that is "reported" (and I do mean for those quotation marks to suggest cynicism in this case) by a human being through a news service or at a dinner party is filtered through a lens of some sort.
Everything is open to interpretation. At least with people like Maddow, there is no attempt to feign objectivity. (Of course, the same can be said about Bill O'Reilly and his ilk.)
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#14re: Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Posted: 12/10/09 at 6:49amI consider Julie Andrews a National Treasure. Maddow is just a smug and supercilious TV talking-head. Much like most TV talking-heads.
#15re: Rachel Maddow is a National Treasure!
Posted: 12/10/09 at 10:26am
Funny, I find her occasionally snarky when others lose touch with facts, but generally fact driven in her statements and unlike most, willing to let those she disagrees with at least get their views out without turning off their mikes or calling them a pinhead. I find her less verbose and self-righteous than Olberman, and far more fact based than any one on Fox.
She researches her topics very thoroughly, and in those instances where she makes a mistakes, owns up to it and apologizes.
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Posted: 12/10/09 at 12:51pmshe sure gots a purdy mouth.
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#18rachel maddow buns up kneelin'
Posted: 12/11/09 at 12:18pm
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