TV shows and advertising too! Pure entertainment needs all those elements to be successful. Good points all that you made and I agree.
Then if this is pure entertainment, Beck resorts to PR gimmicks for it's PR and ad sale results, then how do we know when he talks on his TV and radio show that he really believes this stuff as principle and ideal and is not the result of gimmicks just to drive up ratings in order to sell ad space and make mucha moolah?
What else at Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc also fall in this catagory?