Historian Kathryn Cramer Brownell joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the rise of cable news, which she argues decentralized traditional media and led to today’s fractured political landscape.
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Have cable news hosts become too powerful?
David Zurawik, the recently retired media critic of The Baltimore Sun, talks about the impact these media stars have on our democracy – and about whether its necessary (or even possible) to reign them in.
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