There's a longish story about her in the NY magazine online: The Dr. Maddow Show
All that I've been able to see of the show so far, is on Youtube. But it looks very inspiring and fresh. The article in the NY mag fleshes out the person behind the host - and it feels very real.
As one New York acolyte told me, "She is more like one of my friends than anyone else on television." And her ratings have been astounding, especially in the coveted 25-to-54-year-old demographic. Maddow averaged a higher rating with that group than Larry King Live for thirteen of the first 25 nights she was on the air, enabling the network to out-rate CNN in that time slot for the first time. It's an impressive feat, even given the fact that the show started two months before the election when political interest was at a fever pitch.
You can't be me, I'm taken
It was noted that on the various mainstream channels the commentating guests at the democratic convention this year were half democratic and half republican, but at the republican convention all of the guests were republican.
And of course, half the time on the sunday talk shows the lone democrat on the stacked panel will be some republican-lite blue dog or lieberman.
But MSNBC has two hosts who are not rabidly right wing and suddenly that's a problem for their balanced output. keep to the Fen Causeway
I like Rachel, but her concern-trolling is wearing on me. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
More anecdotal evidence for my observation that men are more likely to be referred to by their last name and women by their first name.
What that means, I don't know. Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
