Catching Up With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  Martin King—he
hasn't used the "Dr." or "Luther" or "Jr." for decades now—is
living proof that even legends can get tired of being legendary.
Pacing his spartan office at MSNBC's studios at Rockefeller
Center on a dreary Wednesday in mid-January, King is pecking a
text message back to his daughter about dinner plans tonight. It
is King's 85th birthday and his family and friends are holding a
party at the forever popular Sylvia's in Harlem, but his first
priority is his new 8 p.m. show on MSNBC.  Dream On! With Martin
King is, in many ways, another current events gabfest on a cable
news channel. The set is hardly different than it was when Chris
Hayes suddenly vacated the 8 p.m. slot just weeks ago, when a
still-simmering scandal over explicit Snapchat exchanges with a
diplomat from India forced the network to give up on All In,
Hayes' struggling show that led MSNBC's prime-time schedule for
less than a year.  The major change, of course, is that Martin
King is stil