"Paul Jensen" wrote in message ...
"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 !

A person commenting on the news is - guess what? RIGHT! He's NOT A
REPORTER! The commentary is an OPINION!

A person who says he is reading a news report verbatum right off the
wire service is a NEWS REPORTER

A person who says he is reading a news report verbatum right off the
wire service and inserts LIES in the report- is......

(FILL IN THE BLANK)

The play-by-play announcer provides tha facts of what happened in the game.
The color COMMENTATOR gives his opinion of the game and/or player.

"misterfact" wrote in message
...

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 !

A person commenting on the news is - guess what? RIGHT! He's NOT A
REPORTER! The commentary is an OPINION!

A person who says he is reading a news report verbatum right off the
wire service is a NEWS REPORTER

uh....no he's not. If he reads a news item, then comments on it, he is not
a reporter, but a commentator. Commenting on the news item he just read.
Now if someone does this, you've heard the news story and you've heard the
opinion. You can decide. Oh wait - you want to decide for everyone else
what they hear. Maybe you could try China. Or Cuba.