The audience for most talk-radio shows turns over four times during the course of an hour interview.

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But with the diversification in partisan viewpoints in media over the last several years, enabled by the rise of talk radio and Fox News, and by the proliferation of opinion on the internet, journalistic gatekeepers on both sides of the ideological divide have knocked down the old pretense.

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Conservative talk radio has worked itself into a tizzy lately over the rumored revival of the Fairness Doctrine -- the FCC policy that sought to enforce balanced discussion on the nation's airwaves.

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The debate over the BBC's funding continued earlier this week when Talk Radio boss Kelvin MacKenzie called for Radio 5 Live to be privatised.

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Endless television and radio talk shows pick over France's deteriorating image abroad, touching not only the Romanies but also the strike by the national football team at the World Cup this summer and the Bettencourt affair, a political-favours scandal involving Eric Woerth, the labour minister.

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Over the next half-decade Seacrest added a countdown show, a morning radio show, a daytime talk show, a celebrity news show and a plum spot on every red carpet in town--which earned him a scene-stealing cameo in 2007's summer box office hit, Knocked Up.

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