{"id":3489,"date":"2002-11-07T11:44:55","date_gmt":"2002-11-07T16:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2002-11-07T11:44:55","modified_gmt":"2002-11-07T16:44:55","slug":"all_the_news_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/07\/all_the_news_2.html","title":{"rendered":"All the news"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really like Jon Stewart, because he doesn’t take himself seriously, and he doesn’t mind pointing out where the emperor has no clothes. Take this interview on CNN<\/a>, where he discussed, among other things, the media coverage of the DC sniper.<\/p>\n

STEWART: I thought it was the media’s finest hour, the sniper coverage.
\nKURTZ: Finest hour?
\nSTEWART: Absolutely, by watching the 24-hour news networks, I learned that the sniper was an olive-skinned, white-black male — men — with ties to Son of Sam, al Qaeda, and was a military kid, playing video games, white, 17, maybe 40.
\nKURTZ: They really nailed it, didn’t they?
\nSTEWART: I thought they did great. And I thought it was really responsible to put them on. I thought CNN, MSNBC, FOX, did a great job putting on — you know what they should’ve called the coverage, “You know what I heard?” and just have people randomly showing…
\n(LAUGHTER)
\nKURTZ: What should happen to all of these experts who came and filled the airwaves with all of these predictions that turned out to be completely and totally wrong?
\nSTEWART: Well, it’s not their fault.
\nKURTZ: It’s not their fault?
\nSTEWART: No.
\nKURTZ: Shouldn’t they have to resign from the talking head society?
\nSTEWART: Shouldn’t CNN have to pay a penalty for putting them on the air? You’re Paulie Walnuts. You’re vouching. You brought a guy in, and you put him on the air and you vouched. You said, “No, Tony, this guy, he’s good people, he’s credible.” So whatever they say, I mean, they’re called profilers.
\n… I don’t understand the idea of — you know I heard a guy talking — actually on your show — saying, “Well, the public really wanted information. They had a real thirst for information. So because we didn’t really have that much information, we had to just speculate.”
\nKURTZ: We made it up.
\nSTEWART: Right. Which seems insane. That’s like saying, “You know, the kids were real thirsty, and we didn’t have any water, so we just gave them beer, because we figured that would work.”<\/p>\n

Good stuff.<\/p>\n

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