Rachel Maddow Seriously Considers Leaving MSNBC

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4. Even she was muzzled at least once by corporate

After the Fukushima nuclear reactors story broke in 2011, she was covering it every night and, indeed, devoting most of her broadcast to it. Then one night, nothing. It was as if a switch had been flipped. It wasn't as if nothing regarding the disaster had happened that day; there was plenty of news about Fukushima. But she never covered the story again.

In the years that followed, she would very occasionally (less than once every couple of years) bring it up in passing, but only if it pertained to some other story she was covering. So it wasn't as if she'd forgotten about it.

I'm sure that the fact that the Fukushima reactors were made by GE, the parent company of MSNBC, had nothing to do with this.

I've sometimes wondered what other stories also aren't being covered.