[Mb-civic] Shout-Fests Are Good for America

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Shout-Fests Are Good for America 
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Michael Kinsley

January 23 2005

Hungry for an issue that will unite us rather than divide us, Americans have settled on a loathing of television shows that divide us rather than unite us. The best known (though it has had lower ratings recently than its unpronounceable competitor on Fox News, "Hannity and Colmes") of these so-called "shout-fests" is CNN's "Crossfire," which has now been sacrificed on the altar of bad publicity. 

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