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Originally Posted by meraxes
Informing - yes, but not misinforming. If they veer into serious subjects I'd expect a serious attitude to these subjects. And this "veering" is not an accidental tangent, I assure you. They discuss beforehand the topics they are going to talk about. If the host is not prepared for a serious talk on a serious subject, he should not stray into it.
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The odds are that they producers probably decided that some guy having a little rant was likely to be more interesting to the audience than him blandly plugging his book.
If you want to complain about any dereliction of duty when it comes to reasoned debate then its the network news and the cable news networks that should be the target of your ire since it's supposed to be their job to report the news rather than dwelling on such trivia as golfers in car crashes or children in balloons.