Com.Central's more hard hitting than News Networks
Dabney_Soulman
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over the last week both the Colbert Report and the daily Show have had guests on that were grilled about their politics and practices in a way that it seems any other news source is scared to doColbert interviewed Michael Brown last week confronting him on his E-mails during the disaster and what he was actually doing at the time. It was tense as fuck. I tried looking for footage online of thie interview but saw none on youtubeJon Stewart had John McCain on last night and directly confronted him about pandering for votes. McCain jokingly came out and said he is changing his style for the upcoming platform, it was ugly to hear but honest. Once again I've yet to see a video of it posted online.Did anyone else catch either of these? Why am I getting more in depth political interviews from comedians rather than news professionals?
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Check the rerun tonight at 8 if you missed it.
That shit was really good. Stewart genuinely likes McCain, but he wasn't gonna let the guy bullshit around a blatant hypocrisy, and he finally got him to admit that he's pandering to the fundie right-wing base. Which sucks. I think Stewart's "I like you, but come the fuck on, man" stance spoke for an awful lot of people. And it's sad that any other news network in the country would've just let McCain spout his talking points, skirting the real issue, and consider the interview a job well done.
John Stewart grills McCain
Sorry, it won't let me directly link. Just scroll down a bit to see the link to the video.
EXACTLY.
But seriously though, why is a network called Comedy Central doing stuff this hard hitting and direct while networks like CNN & MSNBC are stuck on reporting on potential Los Angeles rainstorms...with experts?!?!
is the Daily show the new standard in media journalism?
You are getting more in depth political interviews from "comedians" because Rupert Murdock doesn't own Comedy Central.
You are not finding these on youtube because Rupert Murdock owns the internet.
Seriously though, Jon Stewart is sharp as fuck. More than any old comedian in my opinion.
Reading this right now, and it's making me realize just how ridiculous the political process in this country is. It's like the only way to truly confront it, is thru parody and humor.
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So glad they are re-running this tonight!
I missed it and have been dying to see it.
To answer the original question: Politicians work for corporations and money and corporate money owns the media.
Nuff said?
I'd think this was a joke if it werent so true.
Seems to be the closest thing we have to a Murrow nowadays
it just blows my mind that it's the younger genereration that is open to real issues, real things going on in our nation. meanwhile the older generations are glued to CNN and MSNBC, watching missing person cases and listening to right wing bitches complain about online sex and lost dogs.
YA BOI!
Go to Comedy Central's site, hommie. They got the interview up on there.
Sorry but I've heard too many bad things about the NY Times over the last year or two.
Too many stories of them rolling over or being mouthpieces for the administration.
I suppose if you are really careful with who's articles you read and know who to trust in terms of reporters...
I get my news from salon.com
Is it biased toward the left? Sure.
But they've been breaking a lot of stories lately that no one else will touch.
Recently they forced the government's hand on having to release the rest of the Abu Ghraib photos...
co-sign.
truth is you can't trust any Newsource by itself. Best to check several soures and try to see which ones are reporting a similar story.
Everyday I:
-read the LA times while eating breakfast
-listen to NPR while driving to work
-check Salon.com & Guardian UK
- Watch the daily show when I get home
-catch up with the 1am showing of the O'Reilly Factor (usually while stoned)
I'm usually totaled by the end of that and pass out from fright
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5323008
actually i think stewart's stance was bullshit. he mainly attacked mccain for giving the commencement speech at falwell's liberty university. mccain was steadfast that his message at the university would be consistent with his overall beliefs, and disputed that he has given speeches at other universities who have some policies he does not agree with.
stewart then retorted that mccain speaking at liberty uni was legitimizing falwell and his beliefs. i personally don't agree. futhermore, it makes stewart look like a hypocrite.
the whole time they were having this convsersation, i was thinking about the time stewart went on crossfire. was stewart then somehow legitimizing carlson tucker's "dooshbaggery"?
while i wasn't a big fan of this segment or stewart's stance in this case, i do generally agree with your point dabney. i believe stewart has always been a great interviewer, asking in-depth meaningful, non-pandering questions.
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mandrew
No. Stewart's retorts would only be bullshit if McCain actually went to Liberty U and called Falwell out for his ludicrous stances. But he's obviously beginning his campaign for '08 by trying to cozy up to the conservatives. He doesn't want to blow the nomination like he did in 2000 by appearing too antagonistic. All Stewart did was point that out, and McCain couldn't really argue with it.
If I did this every day I might have to put a bullet in my head.
Seriously.
Daily I check CNN and Salon and usually The Guardian, and by then I am so disgusted that I want to kill myself and others.
Maybe I should go back to what I was doing 6-7 years ago which is avoiding all news and just assuming the worst about the government and corporations (which, I hate to say it, was almost always accurate).
Cosign.
A few years ago he was publicly chastising Falwell and Robertson.
To see him cozying up now is beyond
Can we get a "You're going into crazy base world" graemlin up in here?
How about a picture of McCain saying, "All your crazy base are belong to us!"