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Whatever happened to skepticism? Why do bigtime media people put bullshit on the air? Because they can't tell the difference:

MSNBC got gigged last week when Deborah Norville reported a federal study that supposedly said 58 percent of all exercise done in the United States occurs in those TV infomercials for body-sculpting workout machines.

But the story was a spoof from The Onion, a satirical newspaper and online publication. The network said it inadvertently dropped the attribution in picking up the story, but c'mon - most of the exercise done in America is on TV? Shouldn't somebody in the control room have said, "Hey, wait just a minute ..."

That little voice in your head that screams "Bullshit!" is apparently subject to cultural cycles too. We've just gotten through three years of the American bullshit detection switch in the Off position, and now it's waking back up, thanks to catalysts like Paul O'Neill and Richard Clarke.

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