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Retiring the Throne: The Very Best of Larry King

Yes, it’s true: Larry King just announced that he’s retiring from his long-running gig as the perennially-suspendered, nigh-ageless host of CNN’s Larry King Live. We can’t blame him—after a quarter-century of running one of the most well-respected news shows on cable, the dude deserves a break. So join us, if you will, on a retrospective of The King’s greatest recent moments....  read more

Faux News is Good News

Over the last decade, the newspaper industry has buckled. Three of network TV’s longest-running and most trusted news anchors (Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather) have disappeared from the airwaves. And cable news has become consumed by talking heads paid to eternally bicker as if trapped in some earthbound Purgatory, a place where opinion and hearsay are subtly suggested to be fact, and where it’s policy to cut away from coverage of the day’s most important issues to follow a live car chase on the L.A. freeway....  read more