Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Jon Stewart to Journalists: "Why do I take this more seriously than you?"


Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's late-night fake-news show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, invited journalists from print and TV to a breakfast gathering in a conference room at the University of Denver to tell that they are doing their jobs poorly.

He rails against the 24-hour news cycle, which, he says, creates "that false sense of urgency they create, the sense that everything is breaking news... The 24-hour networks are now driving the narratives and everyone else is playing catch-up."

Note that Jon Stewart is a comedian who hosts a show that used to come on after a show about puppets making crank phone calls.