Radio Talk Show Hosts are a modern embodiment of historical court jesters. They are jesters of WE THE PEOPLE, who replaced king’s Power for the Power of the Constitutional Republic. Therefore, for a sake of special function of these modern "court jesters" in the Society - "protection from misfortune", they should be appreciated and courted themselves. And, of course, they must be exempted from any censorship. Another words, Radio Talk Show Hosts ought to be allowed to behave on the Air in ways which would have been unacceptable for other members of the Society.
'Francois Voltaire and Don Imus' on American Ideological Society Web Portal
Date: 2007-04-17 06:35 pm (UTC)