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at times, this even took the form of direct libel, defaming people. and one of the people defamed sued them, and fox news got out of the court case by arguing that they were NOT a news channel, but 'opinionated entertainment'.

What about "Real Time with Bill Maher"? He defames someone every single time he's on, proably more insulting than Rush L in his wildest frenzy.

'somebody' doing it versus 'a news network' doing it are two different things.

in case you didnt read into the piece of information i provided above ; fox news officially declared itself NOT to be a NEWS network, but 'opinionated entertainment' in a court of law.

this basically means, they accept that whatever they were sued for, is a company wide policy.

otherwise, they could just hurl the responsibility to whatever individual host was doing the libel, and get out of it.

but, they couldnt. that could mean a few things :

- they were doing libel in many of their shows/programs, so that they couldnt just blame one host
- the hosts would be a liability if they blamed him/her
- they wanted to keep the route open for more of the same policy

either of these says that this is their official policy.