{"id":188656,"date":"2010-08-17T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/17\/the-daily-show-is-the-best-journalism-on-tv-today\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T02:51:00","slug":"the-daily-show-is-the-best-journalism-on-tv-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/17\/the-daily-show-is-the-best-journalism-on-tv-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Show is the Best Journalism on TV Today*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, the fact that Jon Stewart has so much material to work with makes me despair for the future of the Republic.<\/p>\n<p>This sh%$ is not rocket science, and the idea that the press is not to call bullsh%$ over transparent bullsh%$ is not a mark of professionalism, it is a mark of cowardice, hypocrisy, and laziness.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, on to the vid.<\/p>\n<p><embed style=\"display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:350555\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"window\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" height=\"301\" width=\"360\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Yes, my Geek Goddess, Rachel Maddow, is a close second.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, the fact that Jon Stewart has so much material to work with makes me despair for the future of the Republic. This sh%$ is not rocket science, and the idea that the press is not to call bullsh%$ over transparent bullsh%$ is not a mark of professionalism, it is a mark of cowardice, hypocrisy, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1002,974,1028,1021,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-good-writing","category-hack-journalism","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","category-religion","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188656"}],"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=188656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}