{"id":1018,"date":"2008-08-17T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2008-08-17T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T18:15:10","slug":"jon-stewart-ready-for-his-new-york-times-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart: Ready For His New York Times Close-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is not surprising that Jon Stewart is getting some “real media”<\/em> cred. Four years ago I wrote an article titled “The Real Fake News.<\/a>” It illustrated how far the Conventional Media had sunk. While they were littered with plagiarists, fabricators, tabloid trivialities, and press releases produced by parties with vested interests in the content, the Daily Show was winning Emmys and Peabodys and praise from respected media institutions like the Columbia Journalism Review. The past four years has only validated my argument that Comedy Central is producing a more informational and insightful news broadcast than the so-called “real”<\/em> media. And news consumers have responded by flocking to the Daily Show and the Colbert Report at the same time that they are abandoning newspapers and broadcast news.<\/p>\n

Today the New York Times has published a feature story profiling Stewart. For the most part it is a routine celebrity piece, but it does hit a couple of significant points. I have long maintained that the Daily Show is not political satire – it is media satire. While the jokes frequently target politicians, it is the press that is really in their sights. The Times touches on this concept briefly:<\/p>\n

“…at a time when Fox, MSNBC and CNN routinely mix news and entertainment, larding their 24-hour schedules with bloviation fests and marathon coverage of sexual predators and dead celebrities, it’s been ‘The Daily Show’ that has tenaciously tracked big, ‘super depressing’<\/em> issues like the cherry-picking of prewar intelligence, the politicization of the Department of Justice and the efforts of the Bush White House to augment its executive power.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Times also noted how Stewart amped up his political focus after 9\/11 with segments that showed “the White House’s efforts to manage the news media,”<\/span><\/em> and “the foibles of an administration known for its secrecy, ideological certainty and impatience with dissenting viewpoints.”<\/span><\/em> The article also provided a quote that many will be able to relate to. Stewart said that he is looking forward to the end of the Bush administration “as a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Mammals across America, and the world, are cheering in agreement right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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