It’s sad that one of the best journalists of the day is Jon Stewart, and his research team of about a million. But by lacing his commentary with hard evidence, he’s doing what most news reporters don’t have time or space to do.
People have asked me to give examples of why Fox News has nothing to do with objective reporting and regularly reports lies. Stewart shows you in this video. Give is a watch. He’s not throwing out theories, nor has he doctored the tapes. This is fair and balanced reporting on the hypocrisy and misinformation center that has become the top-rated cable news source. Consumers, pay heed. It seems to me, their logo should be “We distort so you can’t decide.”
To put it in a nutshell: commentators on Fox praised President George W. Bush for attacking MSNBC, but criticized President Barack Hussein Obama for doing the same. Fox claims that most of its shows are commentary, not news. But then its newscasters take outrageous statements from the commentaries and report them as news. Obama spokes people have been too soft blasting Fox.
What do you think?
Ummmm…. you do get it that Jon Stewart/The Daily Show are comedy, not news. Right? And again we need to ask……… What the heck is this doing on a CONSUMER ADVOCATE website?
Knowing what’s truth and what is not is part of consumer advocacy. You can’t make good decisions on false or misleading information and the news should be a trusted souce for consumers to look to. And with the current role of government in health care, credit card/banking, and other facets of everyday life, I know damned well that I want the truth to be reported about what those officials are deciding and voting on (because I won’t be voting for them if they don’t represent me).
A few years ago, a study was done comparing The Daily Show with half-hour major news shows on Fox, CNN and the networks. The Daily Show had as much “real news” as all of them, and, in several instances, actually contained MORE real news.
I think you are off on this one. I am thankful to Fox for its reporting of the mishandling of the Obama whitehouse. They can’t even distribute H1N1 vaccines and we are to trust them with our healthcare?
Stick to being a consumer advocate,buddy!
To George:
I was really enjoying this site but it seems to turning into an anti-conservative, loony-leftist sounding board. It’ll be a shame if you loose your readers due to your desire to lambaste the right rather than act as a consumer advocate. And c’mon George, they’re using the Daily Show as the news source?? What’s next; quoting “The Onion?”
Eat a Peach, I think, says it best for me. You have to know who these people are spending your tax dollars and the media they are using.
I’m a media critic, not just a consumer reporter. As I’ve said, if you don’t want to read things with my slant, skip over them and read the rest of this informative blog.
But if you are going to cast stones, at least take on the message. To say that this is faulty because it’s on the Comedy channel is ridiculous. The great irony of our time is that this show is doing some of the best news reporting in the country. Can you argue with the evidence, as shown, in this report? That we can talk about.
It seems to me that a news channel admitting it is mostly an entertainment vehicle, and then watching as it spins entertainment into news, is hugely informative for the mass audience who believes, mistakenly, that this is fair and balanced news. If you want to dispute the evidence, I’d like to see it.
I am advocating that consumers be informed fairly by their media. The constant barrage of mistruths on this network and its followers has already caused this country great harm.
If you actually watch this and can defend the commentator who one minute praises Bush for attacking MSNBC and then compares Obama to the Soviets for doing the same to Fox, I’d like to hear what you have to say.
The evidence of media manipulation is clear here. You can’t say it’s out of context or distorted. This is the mark of solid journalism.
He even criticizes Obama’s people as weenies for not holding their own line.
Brad,
Why do I not believe you? When you write, “I am advocating that consumers be informed fairly by their media,†do you also include Dan Rather and his fake memos in his attempt to bring down President Bush? Can you share with us a link where you wrote something about Rather’s “media manipulation”? How about the blatant partisanship on MSNBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS? Does that bother you or do you consider them “fair & balanced”? Just compare the questions that the media asked Joe Biden versus Sarah Palin and you can see which way most media lean. I’d like to see where you’ve written about that. Could you post some links please.
Thanks Brad,
Barry