REGARDING MEDIA / TIM RUTTEN Limbaugh: an act not ready for TV Tim Rutten October 3 2003 [...] Limbaugh's not-particularly-deft and utterly transparent debater's trick notwithstanding, what occurred in this case has nothing to do with sports journalism's purported political correctness and everything to do with what happens when provocateurs of his ilk venture too far outside the ideologically sheltered workshop of talk radio. Over the past decade, the dripping-fang school of right-wing polemic has squeezed every other shade of opinion off commercial talk radio, in large part because station owners would trade their first-born children for a larger share...