Mediagazer: This is what I meant by David Gregory being the death of broadcast news. (tag me with a spoon)

3:50 AM ET, January 31, 2011

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tag me with a spoon:

This is what I meant by David Gregory being the death of broadcast news. To start, he has an good point to make about attempted suppression of information in the Internet age. But because he's part of the journalistic Twitter cult, he has to cheese it up and take it off track.

John Naughton / Guardian:

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