I know this is from last week (sorry, been watching the World Cup), but it’s yet another Daily Show clip exposing the sorry state of the American mainstream media. Michael Hastings, with his Rolling Stone piece that led to the downfall of General McChrystal, showed these morons how to do real journalism and the best they can do is whine about how Hastings got so much access.

For more on this I recommend Glenn Greenwald’s excellent post on the subject.

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Here are some recent and classic Daily Show clips regarding CNN’s form of “journalism.”  Enjoy.

Jon Stewart on the recent CNN ratings woes:

CNN and fact-checking:

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From outrage about ACORN to the recent so-called controversy over school children singing songs about President Obama, right wing media (and politicians) in America are certainly the most hypocritical, dishonest and hyperbolic people in the country.  And rather than seeing this truism expressed and exposed on mainstream news networks, we instead see The Daily Show with Jon Stewart doing the real work of journalism.  Watch the clip:

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Here is yet another classic media critique by The Daily Show, this time they take on Rick Santelli and CNBC:

For a more in depth analysis of the segment see Ryan Chittum’s blog at Columbia Journalism Review.  Chittum admits that the clips used by Stewart are selective, but there is still an important aspect to overall critical assessment of CNBC business reporting:

[W]hat makes this [segment] so interesting is what Stewart does to pierce the CNBC bubble on several different things that make the network so disliked by business journalists generally: Its lack of a line between opinion and reporting (and lack of disclosure about who’s a reporter and who’s not). Its Siamese-twin closeness to Wall Street. Its rah-rah rooting for the stock markets. Its inanity in interviews that too often veers into sycophancy. On the other hand, if there is a discomfort among the business reporters with CNBC, it might be because the network’s bad practices are only extreme manifestations of wider cultural problems in their profession.

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Nice video from the Daily Show:

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