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Jon Stewart on CNN's Crossfire
BoldAC writes "Instead of plugging his new book, Jon Stewart tonight on CNN's Crossfire used his time to slam the media's coverage of the election. Although Stewart leans left, he attacked political shows and begged them: 'Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America.' Is it time to really stop all the political games that both sides play? Torrent of the event is available." And another set of .torrent links.
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I'm not surprised you don't remember it. It came out in 1993 and lasted just long enough for everyone to realize Stewart's lack of talent or insight.
REM Old programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.
As others have noted using one source, a comedian at that, for news is arguably worse than not reading the news at all.
/., google, cnn, harpers, christian science monitor, etc are just some of the sources of information available.
I find Mr. Stewart entertaining, sometimes insightful and always timely but he is just one small source of information in an ever expanding array of mediums.
Calling Mr. Stewart a hero would be equilavent to worhsipping beevus and butthead. Mr. Stewart may be funny and, more importantly, he may be right but that his is luxury, not yours. Just because you listen to a smart man doesn't make you smart. Wisdom is gained not from one master but from many.
What Mr. Stewart was commenting on was the whole system. As an outsider to polticial news he has a unique position. Popular enough to say what he feels but knowing he must always tap dance for the kids. Kinda like having a clown at the birthday party deliver an anti-drug message. The kiddies are not there to hear the antidrug message they are there to see the clown.
I would give serious consideration to re-evaluting your current world view. I would encourage your friends to do the same or someday we may all wake up and find that discourse, political and otherwise, has fallen to the lowest level. No longer will we care what the news is as long as it is told with a snide and a cynical smirk
Perhaps it already is too late.
Regards
Joe Smooth
Maher and Stewart lean left, but they don't follow party lines. They actually think for themselves. It's remarkable how often their moronic Los Angeles audiences will applaud at some liberal talking point, then immediately quiet down when the host disagrees
Actually, Jon Stewart's moronic Los Angeles audience is from New York.
If he tried to run a news show with insightful debate and reasoned commentary (and no comedy) chances are high it would flop or end up with a subsistence market share.
I think that The Varsity on the Dennis Miller show is pretty good. Though it does feature comedy, the debaters on both sides are several notches above most other programs. It would be intersting to watch Stewart (who leans left) and Miller (who leans right and is quite proud of it) square off.
Speaking to "the haves and the have-mores." George W. smirks: "Some people call you the elite, I call you my base"
Indeed, it has become a crime to be successful.
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Bush is bad, mmmkay.
Corporations are bad, mmmkay.
Copyright is bad, mmmkay.
+5 Insightful, here I come!
Discuss among yourselves...
Okay.
Since the journalists decide what to cover and what gets said, it biases most news to the liberal side.
Uh, no. The reporter on the camera might be liberal, but who tells him what stories to cover and how to cover them? Managers. Who tells the managers what to do? Owners. What political affiliation are most owners? Overwhelmingly conservative. This is why conservatives tidbit that 90% (or whatever) of all journalists are liberal is irrelevant, because the owners of Clear Channel, CNN, NBC, Fox and so on are all conservative. And reporters that go against owners and management get fired.
And that's even using the GOP formula for counting how "liberal" the media is: ignore everything that is conservative. So in calling the media liberal, they ignore talk radio. When they call the New York Times liberal, they only count Maureen Dowd and Bob Hebert on the editorial page and ignore the conservative David Brooks and the hawk William Safire.
"Stewart never said not to "do as I do""
Well yes he did. He basically said because you are "journalists" you can no longer do theater, try to be entertaining or try to pump up your ratings. If they listened to him they would be consigned to massively boring, their ratings would crater, and the ratings of "The Daily Show" would go through the roof because everone would be compelled to turn to Stewart to get what they want which is news as theater.
All this was pretty well nailed in the movie "Network" years ago.
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