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Is Glenn Beck a reporter or an entertainer

Should Glenn Beck be treated as a legitimate reporter or as an entertainer?


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Glenn Beck, and others in his field, project themselves as beacons of truth when they're on the air and then and to hide behind words like "opinion" and "commentator" and "entertainer" when they get caught totally screwing up.

In other words, Glenn Beck and others like him sell themselves as legitimate sources of accurate information, and then they hide behind the First Amendment when they get called on the carpet -- and that's when they don't preemptively invoke "opinion" at the very moment they're spouting their rhetoric.

Since Glenn Beck can't seem to decide whether he's going to bill himself as a source of information or a font of opinion, I thought I'd ask the question here, in a poll:

Is Glenn Beck a reporter or an entertainer? To which standard should he be held?


ETA: "Entertainer" is used to reference the profession. You can be an entertainer without actually being entertaining. :lol:
 
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To call him a reporter would imply he is a journalist, which he isn't.

To call him an entertainer implies that he's entertaining, which he isn't.

I abstain.
 
Glenn Beck, and others in his field, project themselves as beacons of truth when they're on the air and then and to hide behind words like "opinion" and "commentator" and "entertainer" when they get caught totally screwing up.

In other words, Glenn Beck and others like him sell themselves as legitimate sources of accurate information, and then they hide behind the First Amendment when they get called on the carpet -- and that's when they don't preemptively invoke "opinion" at the very moment they're spouting their rhetoric.

Since Glenn Beck can't seem to decide whether he's going to bill himself as a source of information or a font of opinion, I thought I'd ask the question here, in a poll:

Is Glenn Beck a reporter or an entertainer? To which standard should he be held?
he is an entertainer, just like rush, hannity, coulter...
 
Missing "Nutjob" on the list.

He aint a reporter that is for sure..
 
He is an entertainer who is a lot better at reporting than reporters, which is even more entertaining.
 
To call him a reporter would imply he is a journalist, which he isn't.

To call him an entertainer implies that he's entertaining, which he isn't.

I abstain.

Oh, I disagree. You can be an entertainer who fails at entertaining. Entertainer implies a profession, not a quality. :mrgreen:
 
The closest thing on that list I suppose is entertainer. Though in reality he's just a raving mad dumbass.
 
How come ass-clown wasn't a choice?:lol:
 
Oh, I disagree. You can be an entertainer who fails at entertaining. Entertainer implies a profession, not a quality. :mrgreen:

You say tomato, I say tomahto.

(No, actually I don't.)
 
He seems to me like a combination of both. He has the ability to connect with his viewers on an emotional level, and he puts forth information that you won't generally see on prime time news broadcasts, because it's not really news, but things that encourage one to think beyond the headlines.

Say what you will, make fun of him all you want, I have yet to see anyone try to challenge the accuracy of about anything he discusses on his show, and when he does say something in error, he faces up to it. I think he looks more at implications than at the surface of things.
 
moment of zen hall of fame right there!!!!

AWESOME!

It really amazes me how some folks almost worship this guy. I guess it shows how gullible people really are. There was a time when TV evangelists had a lock on peoples gullibilty, now people pretending to be journalists are exploiting that market.
 
It really amazes me how some folks almost worship this guy. I guess it shows how gullible people really are. There was a time when TV evangelists had a lock on peoples gullibilty, now people pretending to be journalists are exploiting that market.

no same people being sold the same snake oil pretty much.
 
You can't be both. You're either one or the other. They are mutually exclusive.

You are projecting your limitations on to others. I can do both. I can tell the truth in an entertaining way. If I talk about something that happened to me or something that I saw, I am reporting it. If I report it with humor and wittyness, I become entertaining. There is no reason at all why someone can't be both.
 
You are projecting your limitations on to others. I can do both. I can tell the truth in an entertaining way. If I talk about something that happened to me or something that I saw, I am reporting it. If I report it with humor and wittyness, I become entertaining. There is no reason at all why someone can't be both.

Being entertaining has nothing to do with being an entertainer.
 
no same people being sold the same snake oil pretty much.

I guess you are right. You almost have to be a faithbased individual to be a Beck follower. Jimmy Baker and Glenn Beck are very similar in their sermons.
 
In his own words..."Glenn Beck is a raving, freakazoid nut-sandwich."

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YscfxVuqVw"]YouTube- Glenn Beck is a Raving Freakazoid Nut Sandwich[/ame]
 
Glenn Beck is a political commentator who has earned the ire of the left for attacking their beloved Messiah and his sacred agenda.
 
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