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The Boston Globe's Michael Kranish wrote over the weekend about hyper-partisan, highly-polarized media and their effect on policy discussion. Kranish cited a Duke University study that indicated the US electorate is the most-polarized it has been since the 1900s. Jim Braude and Margery Eagan asked listeners what they're watching and listening to, if they prefer a "point of view" in their news, and what programming is too combative.
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