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The necessity — and danger — of free speech

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is Cable News the Distillation of Media to Day?

i think that if cable news is the distillation of media to day, it's a pretty blunt instrument. And lots of times you have the sense that people are there to kind of get their outrage on. So it's a tough world. I mean, i'm a writer, so i try to be a little bit more subtle in my columns. Do you think the news media has an obligation to serve the interest of the audience? Or do you think it has an obligated to serve the audience exactly what it wants, even if what it wants is garbage?

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