Public Image and Publicity
Maddow has been profiled in People, The Guardian, and The New York Observer, has appeared on The View and Charlie Rose.
A 2011 Hollywood Reporter profile of Maddow said that she was able to deliver news "with agenda, but not hysteria." A Newsweek profile noted that, "At her best, Maddow debates ideological opponents with civility and persistence... But for all her eloquence, she can get so wound up ripping Republicans that she sounds like another smug cable partisan." Baltimore Sun critic David Zurawik has accused Maddow of acting like 'a lockstep party member.'" Maddow has likewise been criticized by the editors of The New Republic for her program, which they called "A textbook example of the intellectual limitations of a perfectly settled perspective." On awarding the Interfaith Alliance's Faith and Freedom Award named for Walter Cronkite, Rev. Dr. C Welton Gaddy remarked that "Rachel’s passionate coverage of the intersection of religion and politics exhibits a strong personal intellect coupled with constitutional sensitivity to the proper boundaries between religion and government.”
A Time profile called her a "whip-smart, button-cute leftie." It said that she radiates an essential decency and suggested that her career rise might signify that "nice is the new nasty."
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