Is it okay to hire people to talk on your talk show? Well, it depends. I consider it perfectly reasonable if the viewers/listeners are informed of it. It's wrong to keep it a secret from them. There are a lot of reasons why. Rush Limbaugh hired people, and no one knew.
I'd say it's wrong because it can affect a person's opinion by the way of pressure. If the talk show callers all disagree with a viewer, then the viewer may feel that they have to change their opinion. That isn't fair at all.
Not to mention the fact that its lying. Lying, as a rule, is wrong. Especially when your misleading thousands of people who have no idea. That's lying on a large scale. I'd hope that most people would agree.
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