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Originally Posted by meraxes
Then the problem is with the network, which has done a very poor service to its audience. They should have got someone knowledgeable to represent the other side in this debate. Letting idiots prattle about things they know nothing about might pass for entertainment, but this is not just about entertainment. This is an important public debate on a matter of clear public interest.
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The problem is not the network and this was not a formal debate that required a right to reply, this was simply the tangent a book-plugging interview took on a show on comedy central. Their obligation is to be entertaining and ideally funny with any informing being incidental to that aim and to expect more from them is as silly as one of the cable news channels who wasted their time fact-checking a snl sketch.