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RiYL
Brian Heater
Episode 051: Chris Hayes
28 minutes Posted Apr 29, 2014 at 5:27 pm.
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Chris Hayes arrives carrying a sandwich in a brown paper bag. When I make some
offhanded joke about the host of a primetime cable news show having to
get his own lunch, he thinks nothing of it, just appreciating the chance
to get away for a moment. Not that he doesn’t love his job, of course.
It takes a very specific sort to host a show like All In five days a
week, a few if any are as perfectly suited for the 24 hour political
news bring as Chris Hayes. Over the past four years, the bespectacled
pundit has worked his way up from guest on the network to the host of
MSNBC’s 8PM slot — a position that puts him directly up against Fox’s
O’Reilly Factor. Hayes kindly took 30 minutes out of his busy TV
show hosting / sandwich procuring schedule to discuss his career and the
increasingly prominent role of cable news in our always-on society.