{"id":194693,"date":"2008-08-26T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/26\/i-agree-with-john-stewart\/"},"modified":"2008-08-26T05:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T10:09:00","slug":"i-agree-with-john-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/26\/i-agree-with-john-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"I Agree with John Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, he is calling the <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/08\/25\/jon-stewart-lectures-reporters-on-coverage\/\">political reporters a bunch of wankers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>As Comedy Central&#8217;s &#8220;Daily Show&#8221; descends on Denver for four days of coverage, Jon Stewart took after the &#8220;established&#8221; media for getting too cozy with candidates and regurgitating campaign spin when it comes to political coverage.<\/p>\n<p>In a breakfast with reporters, Stewart directed most of his ire at the 24-hour cable news networks, which he called &#8220;gerbil wheels,&#8221; and said the media at-large had &#8220;abdicated&#8221; to what he called the &#8220;slow-witted beast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the never-ending television news cycle creates a &#8220;false sense of urgency&#8221; and forces reporters to &#8220;follow the veins that have been mined,&#8221; instead of pursuing serious and in-depth reporting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, I get to a point where I can&#8217;t take it any more, and use the mute button too much, and then I can&#8217;t stand their faces, and I change the channel watch Alton Brown on <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Food Network<\/span>, and check in with the blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I did keep checking in because I felt that Kennedy deserved the eyeballs, but during political coverage, even Maddow and Olbermann get on my nerves, because they spend so much time repeating themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, he is calling the political reporters a bunch of wankers: As Comedy Central&#8217;s &#8220;Daily Show&#8221; descends on Denver for four days of coverage, Jon Stewart took after the &#8220;established&#8221; media for getting too cozy with candidates and regurgitating campaign spin when it comes to political coverage. In a breakfast with reporters, Stewart directed most &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1129,1064,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194693"}],"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=194693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}