every day in 2016, write a sentence or a paragraph or a poem that appreciates
the Rachel Maddow show
imagine! imagine a news show anchor who spends up to ten minutes giving you the historical perspective for the lead story, then covers the lead story in such detail that it takes another ten minutes! yes, twenty minutes on the lead story! dear god, she makes news relevant again! then she manages to squeeze three more stories into the twenty-two minutes she has left to make an hour of television time. yes, she only covers the four most important stories of the day, and they are her choice of what the four most important stories of the day are, so this is definitely not "corporate news" which is the new (or new-to-me) term for the news you get from ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN. Rachel Maddow gives you no car chases. she delivers news and damn near drowns you in context for it. she is gleefully liberal. she's not one of those "liberals" you have to take Fox News' word for for their being liberal. oh! and she has a sense of humor! she's funny! on purpose! not comedy-routine funny but isn't-this-story-a-delight funny! by the time she's finished, I'm almost happy with the news, even when it's calamity after disaster after tragedy. and she's very generous with identifying the local reporters who broke the story. for me, her show is news-as-it-should-be! thank you, Rachel.
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