A Weird Mix

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That’s Enter-tainment!

“This mix of entertainment and news, and news masquerading as entertainment, is kind of funny except that we now have a guy who is a product of that world nominated as Republican presidential nominee. . . . 

“Fox News at its heart is not a journalistic institution. Megyn Kelly is a great journalist, Chris Wallace is a great journalist, but it is some weird mix of a little bit of journalism, a little bit of entertainment, a little bit of pandering to a particular audience.” 

—Dean Baquet, executive editor, The New York Times, in Kelsey Sutton, “NYT executive editor: CNN and Fox News are 'bad for democracy,’” Politico, Oct. 28, 2016 

• Editorial Comment: Song and dance, 2016.

Not a PeezPic Today

I read the news today. Oh, boy.









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