{"id":183804,"date":"2012-11-13T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/13\/stewart-misses-the-point\/"},"modified":"2012-11-13T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T01:52:00","slug":"stewart-misses-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/13\/stewart-misses-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart Misses the Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stewart faults his own journalistic chops on l&#8217;affaire Petraeus:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:421145\" width=\"496\" height=\"279\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yes, he interviewed Paula Broadwell, and did not pick up anything untoward, but so did a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>What he has is enough self-awareness to realize that he missed a big story.<\/p>\n<p>It could be worse.  Robert MacNeil, formerly of the MacNeil\/Lehrer report, on November 22, 1963, at Dealy Plaza, he ran into a man, and asked where he could find a phone.<\/p>\n<p>The man he ran into was Lee Harvey Oswald.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists don&#8217;t have any more senses than the rest of us, and Jon Stewart has an almost unrivaled ability to call out bullsh%$ in a clear and concise matter.<\/p>\n<p>I do think, and Jon Stewart would agree, that it&#8217;s f%$#ed up that a comedian is arguably one of the finest journalists on cable today, but we are living in a f%$#ed up world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stewart faults his own journalistic chops on l&#8217;affaire Petraeus: Yes, he interviewed Paula Broadwell, and did not pick up anything untoward, but so did a lot of people. What he has is enough self-awareness to realize that he missed a big story. It could be worse. Robert MacNeil, formerly of the MacNeil\/Lehrer report, on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1002,1129,1028,1075,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-good-writing","category-journalism","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","category-sex","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}