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Brokaw: 'The Worst Kind of Symbolism'

Tom Brokaw tells The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz that many Americans feel disconnected from politics and blames the media in part for a 'gotcha' mentality that trivializes the presidential campaign. The longtime NBC anchor reserves his strongest words for the celebrity-packed nature of the WHCD, calling it an event that 'seems to be an exercise simply in hedonism.' Oh, and he now refuses to attend.

Updated Apr. 24, 2017 11:53AM ET / Published May. 08, 2012 8:08AM ET 

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