"misterfact" wrote in message
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This has been posted in this and other newsgroups for more times than anyone
can remember, but apparently you haven't bothered to read it even once: Talk
show hosts are entertainers. They are NOT sources of fact and were never meant
to be.

A person who comments on the news (wether a lawyer, garbage collector
or talk show host) is not being an ENTERTAINER- he is being- guess
what? RIGHT! A NEWS COMMENTATOR !

Sorry, but there you're wrong (as the FCC has defined it, anyway.) Limbaugh et.al.
are entertainers, as the programming they provide is entertainment programming which
is not subject to the more demanding tests of a newscast. Further, even though they
comment on current affairs (another facet of journalism) as entertainers they are
still not held accountable for facts, differing opinions or, for that matter, pretty
much anything else.

A song and dance man performing on stage or on the radio is called an
-guess what! RIGHT ! AN ENTERTAINER !

Right.....so now you can understand that your crusade is without merit. The FCC has
bigger fish to fry. Try getting this kind of programming re-classified, and restore
the Fairness Doctrine to its previous role in providing a broad sampling of opinion
on the broadcast media. Then you might have a case.
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