Daily Show TV Thrash
The Daily Show on Monday was an equal-opportunity-media-thrasher.
First, Stewart went after Fox News and Sean Hannity for literally playing a clip of President Obama‘s recent speech in Cairo and cutting off the president in mid-sentence. Hannity tried to show what only he could have possibly perceived as Obama giving “a voice to 9/11 sympathizers a voice on the world stage.” The Daily Show simply ran the the rest of the clip to show the President’s true intentions.
This is the worst of the worst when it comes to biased and fear-driven reporting. It’s not Hannity taking an action or a policy and offering his opinion. Instead, it’s one man blatantly lying to the American people. It’s a free country, and Fox News can play any clips it likes. But we should demand better, and Fox should do better.
Fox News isn’t alone in biased coverage, and I’m the first to admit that there is a dearth of objective news coverage out there. If anything, MSNBC is on the other side of the political spectrum, with equally ludicrous news coverage, and Stewart pummels Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Ed, and the rest of the MSNBC news crew for their incessant coverage of Rush Limbaugh (and his own ludicrous antics).
Let’s get the rest of the facts out there. TV like this can be entertaining. I watch MSNBC often during the week because I get to know some of the important issues out there. But I realize that shows, especially those like “Countdown” are political entertainment–a show meant to inform and entertain–and not purely factually based. The clips are meticulously selected to push an agenda, and the guests are treated based on their views. And Jon Stewart is no middle-of-the-road journalist dedicated to the facts alone, but this clip is must see Internet TV. It’s slightly ironic that a great reminder that Fox “News” and MSNBC often show entertainment rather than objective news comes in the form of a Comedy Central TV show billed as “fake news” that doesn’t dispute for a second that it’s main purpose is entertainment. That said, it’s an important reminder, and a fun bit to watch.
Please enjoy the video below (apologies for the ads, but it’s free, and embedded–I’ll take what I can get). If the embedded Hulu doesn’t work, click here for the dailyshow.com direct link.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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Tags: Daily Show, Entertainment News, Fox News, Fox News Channel, Jon Stewart, Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Political TV, Rachel Maddow, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity
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