Yeah, shows on the major 24/7 news networks should probably be held to a higher standard than a news/comedy show on Comedy Central that did, at the time, come after Crank Yankers.
This is honestly a point that a lot of conservative youtubers/pundits could make now. Imagine if Alex Stein (he of the "there's my big booty latina" to AOC -- which is very much meant to be comedic) went on a talking-head debate show on Fox and said "Yeah, I'm just a guy trying to raise awareness on political issues of the day by bringing a humorous perspective to it... you are the news and should get out of Opinion." -- it'd be the same thing, and we'd applaud it.
For an NYC lib, Stewart isn't that bad. It's low praise, but it's true.
Yeah, shows on the major 24/7 news networks should probably be held to a higher standard than a news/comedy show on Comedy Central that did, at the time, come after Crank Yankers.
Yeah, this is the hypocrisy I'm talking about.
Crossfire was basically the republican version of The Daily Show. Extremely hypocritical (and a sad sign of things to come where things got much worse) to pretend that the shows up before or after it were an actual argument. Stewart just didn't like people on the other side doing the same thing he was doing.
What was the percentage of young people who's only source of news was the daily show - like 30%? There's another group for daily show + others, and another group of "doesn't get news at all" - it was probably the biggest single source of news for young people.
Isn't this being a little too harsh on Stewart?
Yeah, shows on the major 24/7 news networks should probably be held to a higher standard than a news/comedy show on Comedy Central that did, at the time, come after Crank Yankers.
This is honestly a point that a lot of conservative youtubers/pundits could make now. Imagine if Alex Stein (he of the "there's my big booty latina" to AOC -- which is very much meant to be comedic) went on a talking-head debate show on Fox and said "Yeah, I'm just a guy trying to raise awareness on political issues of the day by bringing a humorous perspective to it... you are the news and should get out of Opinion." -- it'd be the same thing, and we'd applaud it.
For an NYC lib, Stewart isn't that bad. It's low praise, but it's true.
Yeah, this is the hypocrisy I'm talking about.
Crossfire was basically the republican version of The Daily Show. Extremely hypocritical (and a sad sign of things to come where things got much worse) to pretend that the shows up before or after it were an actual argument. Stewart just didn't like people on the other side doing the same thing he was doing.
What was the percentage of young people who's only source of news was the daily show - like 30%? There's another group for daily show + others, and another group of "doesn't get news at all" - it was probably the biggest single source of news for young people.
But that says a lot more about the failures of the media than it does about Comedy Central. That's my point.