“I watch MSNBC for Joy Reid, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow<br />and Lawrence O’Donnell because I trust them as journalists,” Ms. Steinem wrote, adding, “A journalist’s job is not to be balanced; it’s to be accurate.”<br />At Rockefeller Plaza, Ms. Maddow was asked if it felt odd to be enjoying a major<br />career moment thanks to the election of a president whose policies she loathes.<br />These days, he is a newfound devotee of Rachel Maddow of MSNBC — “She’s always talking about the Russians!” his wife, Yvonne, chimed in —<br />and believes Mr. Stewart’s successor, Trevor Noah, has finally “hit his stride.”<br />“With Trump in office, I really feel the need to stay more informed,” Mr. Brumleve added.<br />“We all gather around that hearth to know what’s going on out there,<br />and be comforted by the people who come on our screens to say, things will be all right.”<br />Last week, outside a taping Samantha Bee’s TBS comedy show, “Full Frontal,” Stacie Bloom, 44, said she was finding television “cathartic.”<br />“Maddow, I love her,” said Ms. Bloom, a scientist who lives in New York.<br />“There’s definitely a sense of we’re-in-this-together-ness,” Mr. Noah said in an interview, noting<br />that Mr. Trump’s election had infused his show with a new sense of purpose.<br />I experience it in a different way than the audience experiences it, but I need it, too.”<br />For Mr. Noah, who struggled early on to replicate the success of his “Daily Show” predecessor, Mr. Stewart, the election became a clarifying moment.
