The idea that the great dramatists, documentarians and even entertainers who have flourished over these wonderful 75 years of TV have been primarily thinking about selling us stuff is patently absurd.
Many writers, who once would have self-identified as journalists, are now just as happy to be called writers, or even "entertainers".
Even entertainers have joined in.
Even entertainers, athletes and their coaches enter the public arena knowing that the spotlight of publicity will be on them.
And even entertainers -- like Ellen DeGeneres, who knocked down television's closet door even when it sent some advertisers running - played a critical role in moving public opinion on equality.
And I believe that we just need to come together, especially the black community, with some prominent black leaders -- even entertainers -- and just go out and rally and peacefully march, and just put an end to all of this.
She's been accepted, even winning Entertainer of the Year at last year's CMAs, but brute force helped: numbers talk.
That evening's entertainer, saxophonist Eric Wyatt, was not the kind of avant garde maestro I'd listen to on a British radio.
The groups taking part in the separate petition include the biggest union representing television performers, the three Hollywood guilds representing actors, directors and writers, and even individual entertainers like the comedian Margaret Cho and the magicians Penn and Teller.
Indeed by the late 1950s, the son of a sewing-machine operator and a truck driver had incurred the wrath of parents, pastors and even other entertainers, who considered his persona too vulgar and sexual.
