The Nation's Hayes on Matthews: "[H]e's ascended to the level of kind of icon of the frustration that people have with the media"

SUMMARY: On National Public Radio's On the Media, co-host Brooke Gladstone discussed a post on the Columbia Journalism Review blog Campaign Desk that "suggests that the vote for [Hillary] Clinton in New Hampshire was in some way a vote against MSNBC's Chris Matthews, as the sort of breathing, saliva-spewing symbol of a general media dump on Hillary. When we talk about groupthink, is he the leader of the pack?" Christopher Hayes, Washington editor for The Nation, replied: "I think he's one of them. I mean, he's certainly the most voluble of the bunch." Hayes later said of Matthews: "I think that he's ascended to the level of kind of icon of the frustration that people have with the media, particularly the media's relationship with the Clintons."

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