James Moore, Huffington Post
brilliant minds think alike.
check below for some bon mots on Stewart from Moore.
e.g. It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously." - Oscar Wilde
checkitout: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/and-a-comic-shall-lead-th_b_173734.html
MY ORIGINAL STORY
Isn't it the height of disinformation when a comedian is looking like the best person to win THE journalism award in America?
We have a man, Jon Stewart, who is a comic, and who likes doing interviews, and dead-pan faces, so somebody put him behind a desk and gave him 18 writers. He impersonates a
talking head (i.e. a news-reader/anchor -nice metaphor, bottom of the ocean),
and not even a journalist. And yet he appears, functionally, to be providing the services that we used to expect from journalists.
I give you the headline of a Rolling Stone front-cover story:
America's Anchors
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert faked it until they made it.
Now they may truly be the most trusted names in news.
He is finding dissident stuff and commenting in such a clear way that he makes all the talking heads, not to mention their social-climbing, embedded, spooning journalists look like complete meat-heads. Nice hair, good expression, empty head, no morals, okay? LOOK!Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert faked it until they made it.
Now they may truly be the most trusted names in news.
[unbelievably, that last one is a racist and spends her time on-air mocking the poor.]
See how Stewart calmly, politely and eruditely skewers the financial system and the reporting of it on CNBC in his interview of Cramer. The best are the latter 2 of 3
Checkitout:-http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=221517&title=jim-cramer-unedited-interview
-http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=221518&title=jim-cramer-unedited-interview
-see also my other attacks on "journos": 'BBC lackeys' 'freedom of the press to kiss buttocks'
-goto www.alternet.org and search for Malkin
some clips from MOORE'S STORY , Huffington Post (copyright)
-I am inclined to wonder if there is a line somewhere in the Book of Revelation that proclaims "and a comic shall lead them."
- If a writer for the Wall Street Journal or even the Boston Globe had put together a piece deconstructing the fallibilities of Jim Cramer's advice they would have had great problems with publication. Lawyers would have been engaged and editors would have furrowed their brows and worried about being counter-attacked or whether CNBC's advertisers would have stayed away from the paper. Sadly, no editor or reporter would have even thought up the idea of doing an analysis of Cramer's nonsensical babblings.
-Analysts doing the autopsy on newspaper reporting and the corpse of mainstream journalism are constantly lamenting the fact that so many young people and an increasing number of others are getting their news from Jon Stewart and Comedy Central.
THIS IS A DAMNING INDICTMENT OF TV NEWS:
-Cable news shows can proclaim "no bias, no bull" all they want but every story is framed for a purpose, which is drama and conflict. The viewers and the readers aren't there without the dramatic tension. You might as well be watching Law and Order: Special News Unit.
THIS SHOWS MOORE'S FAITH IN OLD-FASHIONED CYNICISM:
-Unfortunately for traditional journalism, the audience increasingly realizes that much of the material presented is manufactured controversy that requires no resolution.
HIS CONCLUSION? LET'S WORRY:
-The only thing worrisome about Stewart's ascension in American culture is that his schtick and acerbic wit might be a canary in our red, white, and blue coal mine. We've got a funny guy in charge of how we think. Can that be good?
-goto www.alternet.org and search for Malkin
some clips from MOORE'S STORY , Huffington Post (copyright)
-I am inclined to wonder if there is a line somewhere in the Book of Revelation that proclaims "and a comic shall lead them."
- If a writer for the Wall Street Journal or even the Boston Globe had put together a piece deconstructing the fallibilities of Jim Cramer's advice they would have had great problems with publication. Lawyers would have been engaged and editors would have furrowed their brows and worried about being counter-attacked or whether CNBC's advertisers would have stayed away from the paper. Sadly, no editor or reporter would have even thought up the idea of doing an analysis of Cramer's nonsensical babblings.
-Analysts doing the autopsy on newspaper reporting and the corpse of mainstream journalism are constantly lamenting the fact that so many young people and an increasing number of others are getting their news from Jon Stewart and Comedy Central.
THIS IS A DAMNING INDICTMENT OF TV NEWS:
-Cable news shows can proclaim "no bias, no bull" all they want but every story is framed for a purpose, which is drama and conflict. The viewers and the readers aren't there without the dramatic tension. You might as well be watching Law and Order: Special News Unit.
THIS SHOWS MOORE'S FAITH IN OLD-FASHIONED CYNICISM:
-Unfortunately for traditional journalism, the audience increasingly realizes that much of the material presented is manufactured controversy that requires no resolution.
HIS CONCLUSION? LET'S WORRY:
-The only thing worrisome about Stewart's ascension in American culture is that his schtick and acerbic wit might be a canary in our red, white, and blue coal mine. We've got a funny guy in charge of how we think. Can that be good?
