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It's gotten to the point that guest talking heads use entire reply posts from FR as their agitprop rhetoric oneliners. Heck, I once almost got in an accident when Rush read one of my posts verbatim while driving on a major highway. (I think I just wrote something just like that in the morning, Holy cr*P, that's exactly what I wrote!)... And the fact that there are a number of talking heads who regularly lurk and post here, (though I expect less so now then a few years ago since blogging has expanded so much among the chattering classes), we get what we want, and have the chance to have our posted opinions amplified nationally be those watching this board.

Oh, and why would I want to read news from an organization that has cooking tips, icons on what to wear tomorrow during the weather reports, and news stories about their own celebrities? Breaking stories about car chases going national, Peterson, MJ, Tom Cruise's love life, latest fashion. Their hard news department is underfunded, ignored, overlawyered, outmoded, heavily edited, leveraged to increase sitcom and reality viewers and late to the game. The same reason so few watch there TV programming anymore. Spanish language news programs have more in depth reporting then them, with smaller budgets, larger audiences, more international bureaus, and well, much more attractive newsreaders.

/(Long winded lunch break rant)