Nice punchline to recent NYT article (FOX and the tsunami)
I enjoyed the conlcusion to this recent New York Times piece about FOX-like punditry, Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, and the tsunami:
"Perhaps this trend ["snarling heads with right-wing commentary" standing in for 'news'] has gone as far as it can go. Mr. Stewart's 'Daily Show,' which is especially popular with young people, is a reminder that television was supposed to be a 'cool' medium, best suited to people whose jugular veins aren't throbbing. And last month, when the tsunami hit Asia, viewers got a chance to notice what they were in danger of losing to talk TV. CNN, with a comparatively large international army of journalists at its disposal, went out and covered the story. Fox News and MSNBC had to depend more on conversationalists in the studio, all of whom agreed that tidal waves were very, very bad."
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"Perhaps this trend ["snarling heads with right-wing commentary" standing in for 'news'] has gone as far as it can go. Mr. Stewart's 'Daily Show,' which is especially popular with young people, is a reminder that television was supposed to be a 'cool' medium, best suited to people whose jugular veins aren't throbbing. And last month, when the tsunami hit Asia, viewers got a chance to notice what they were in danger of losing to talk TV. CNN, with a comparatively large international army of journalists at its disposal, went out and covered the story. Fox News and MSNBC had to depend more on conversationalists in the studio, all of whom agreed that tidal waves were very, very bad."
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