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MSNBC’s Alex Wagner breaks the old mold

“Now” doesn’t try to make news. Wagner hardly ever lands the groundbreaking interview or elicits the controversial quote that gets everyone talking, a la Mitchell or NBC’s Meet The Press. Nor does she seek to pit her panelists against one another in an effort to stir up ratings. Hers is a bull-session rather than a brawl. It cedes the floor to a rotating salon of print and online journalists, as well as a familiar cast of network contributors, and opens a line into the newsroom insider’s view on the national political narrative.

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