Wednesday, August 27, 2008
By golly, it has substance.
I'm sickened by the American news media. Television. Cable. Newspapers. Radio. It's difficult for me to get information. Like about the nitty-gritty political issues facing America. Instead, I'm getting a barrage of personal information about the presidential candidates. Lots of it incidental stuff. And, oh, so many pundits' opinions about the personalities. And polls showing what potential voters think. With so many of the opinions based on shallow sound bites. Didn't used to be that way. Back 30 or 40 years ago, the news media did a good job. By informing us about critical issues. And Watergate. Things like that. Now we get fluff. Or virtually nothing at all. Often, I just turn off the news programs in disgust. Maybe the most informative of the programs is Jon Stewart's Daily Show on Cable. It's meant as parody. But by golly, it has substance. --Jim Broede
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"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart -- it's even better than being informed."
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the nightly half-hour series unburdened by objectivity, journalistic integrity or even accuracy."
Now, THAT's how to really get the news!
Seems to me that Jon Stewart comes closer to hitting the nail on the head than does CNN or Fox News. Even though it's parody. That's a sad state of affairs, isn't it? --Jim Broede
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