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These days, it’s hard to imagine a time when a plurality of the population agreed on anything, especially media consumption.
Strange as it sounds to say, for 25 glorious years, Larry King was the glue that helped hold a grateful nation together. From 1985 to 2010, when King commandeered the 8 p.m. hour of CNN as the host of
Larry King Live, basic cable subscribers of every ideological stripe or none at all could gather to spend time in the company of an essentially neutral arbiter of the day’s news, gossip, or scandals. Following a decade in exile from mainstream cable news, King died on Jan. 23 at the age of 87.