The Daily Show continues to chronicle the end of TV news as we have come to know it, as evidenced by the way the cable news networks covered the book tour of Hillary Clinton.
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NPR interviewed Clinton last weekend (or was it the weekend before) and I was grossed out by the softball, fawning questions, and the way the interviewer (was it Terri Gross?) let the big lies go unchallenged.