Game Over for WaPo TV's 'In Play'

Alternative headline: WaPo TV’s ‘On Background’ Now Off the Record.  Golly, we’re witty.

Either way it seems that after less than  five short months, the Post‘s political web TV programs have gotten the ax. Launched in late July of this year, ‘In Play’ hosted by Chris Cillizza and Jackie Kucinich and ‘On Background’ with Nia Malika Henderson promised to “get at the politics of politics, in a fun way.”  But like many of WaPo‘s new media ventures, it’s all fun and games until someone has to watch.

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