{"id":188974,"date":"2010-06-24T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/24\/jon-stewart-nails-the-press-again\/"},"modified":"2010-06-24T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:33:00","slug":"jon-stewart-nails-the-press-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/24\/jon-stewart-nails-the-press-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Nails the Press \u2026 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 360px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><embed style=\"display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:313194\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"window\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" width=\"360\" height=\"301\"><\/embed><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Best Journalist in America<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>This time, he&#8217;s angry at the press, Fox, or rather the idiotic Gretchen Carlson, in particular, but the press as a whole, over their coverage of the McChrystal affair.<\/p>\n<p>He notices that everyone in the MSM is stunned and amazed that <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Rolling Stone<\/span> reporter Michael Hastings was willing to piss off someone by doing his job, and thus not have him as a source again.<\/p>\n<p>You see, a lot of bad reporting is driven by the fact that reporters have their tongues so far up well connected sources asses that they can taste tonsil, and it makes the mainstream media resemble a protection racket.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/theinnerwalls.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/major-issue-missing-from-mcchrystal.html\">the  inner walls<\/a>, aka my hairy barbarian elder brother, who dryly observes, &#8220;What a concept, doing the job comes first, careerism later.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Best Journalist in America This time, he&#8217;s angry at the press, Fox, or rather the idiotic Gretchen Carlson, in particular, but the press as a whole, over their coverage of the McChrystal affair. He notices that everyone in the MSM is stunned and amazed that Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings was willing to piss &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1129,1028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-journalism","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188974"}],"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=188974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}