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The Cable News Patrol: Glenn and Rachel Become My New Best Friends

As a small boy half a century ago, I vividly recall accompanying my widowed grandmother to the live TV broadcast of "The Price Is Right." During the warm-up before the show, I cringed with embarrassment as my grandmother (a formidable woman who favored sensible shoes and hairpins) asked the host, Bill Cullen, the kind of personal question normally reserved for close friends and family. Only later did I realize that my grandmother, living alone, had been listening to Cullen for years on the radio -- and thought he was family. After watching cable TV news virtually nonstop as an experiment ...

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