Stewart also depresses me because I am not sure how it is that the Daily show, half-hour program on comedy central, it the best critical news on television. I know the Daily show has a liberal slant, and that they play to a specific demographic which allows them to do what they do without worrying about losing audience. But, at the same time, they are entertainment. CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and the networks, these are actual news programs, but their fact-checkers and reporters and talking heads do basically no confrontation or follow, they just allow their guests to talk and just agree. It is depressing ... we really need a stronger, independent and principled 4th estate to protect democracy, and todays news organizations are more concerned with ratings and profits than news.
A great example of this was the controversy over ACORN, in which two 20-something amateur "journalists" exposed that ACORN was giving advice to pimps and prostitutes on how to set up a brothel. How is it that all the professional news organizations with all their resources and reporters missed this story ... I mean, if the news were constantly full of other stories of equal import, and not flooded with information about Jon & Kate plus 8, I might understand. As usual, Stewarts comments on this are better than mine.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| The Audacity of Hos | ||||
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Stewart has been particularly good addressing the effects of the declining quality of our news organizations this issue this week, here addressing CNN's lack of fact-checking ...
And here addressing selective news coverage ... as an added bonus, this clip contains my favorite recent Stewart quote
"Gay people aren't vampires, the show up on camera".
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Queer and Loathing in D.C. | ||||
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I am sure that you few people who read my blog watch the daily show, but if you don't, check it out.
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