Poor NBC. It's been a really weird week for them.
Tag this one for your next long-reads session: Frank Rich's latest New York magazine cover story explores the current state of declinist panic in the United States as nostalgia for something that never was.
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Following Andy Griffith's passing Tuesday, many people are remembering his role in Elia Kazan's 1957 film A Face in the Crowd both for his great performance as Lonesome Rhodes, a demagogic populist media personality and for the way Budd Schulberg's script predicted the rise of Glenn Beck.
Andy Griffith, a television legend, died in his home this morning according to close friend and former University of North Carolina President Bill Friday.
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