Posted by David McCall on 08/29/06 13:56

"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote in message
news:12f8hlpvrau170@corp.supernews.com...
> "David McCall" wrote ...
>> I don't know that concerned celebrities have any less right to
>> speak out than any other citizen or politician for that matter.
>
> They are almost uinversally less informed than your average
> citizen (or even politician). They trade on their celebrity
> status and don't bother (or are incapable of) actually researching things
> for themselves. They are addicted to the attention they get from people
> schmmozing them to talk up their "cause".
>
But, this is only true for the ones you disagree with.

>> They just get more "air time" because they are "stars". They
>> have every right to their opinion, and the networks have the
>> right to put whoever they want in their programs. You don't
>> have to agree with or believe any of them.
>
> And that is a major symptom of the decline of our current
> culture/society. That "celebrities" are trotted out to make
> the cause-du-jour more "compelling". "The networks" have
> completely abdicated any credibility of their own. They
> are profit-oriented entertainment media and are completely
> unreliable for objective, factual information.

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