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Six Degrees: Jon Stewart speaks, makes news media uncomfortable
No Fact Zone —
Sorry I didn’t get this posted yesterday, y’all, but better late than never, right?
From The Washington Post (internal links omitted):
No Joke: Jon Stewart Takes Aim At 24-Hour Cable News ‘Beast’
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 26, 2008; Page A20
DENVER, Aug. 25 — Jon Stewart ripped the cable news networks Monday as a “brutish, slow-witted beast” and castigated Fox News in particular as “an appendage ...
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Daily Show News —
... particular as "an appendage of the Republican Party." Wearing a gray T-shirt, khaki pants and a healthy stubble, the Daily Show host told reporters at a University of Denver breakfast that Fox's "fair and balanced" slogan is an insult "to people with brains" and that only "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace "saves that network from slapping on a bumper sticker...Barack Obama could cure cancer and they'd figure out a way to frame it as an economic disaster." Full Text of Article @ Washington Post As my friend e_colberto said yesterday, Word to your moms, Stewart came to ...
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mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA —
Howard Kurtz's WaPo column sums it up:
Jon Stewart ripped the cable news networks Monday as a "brutish, slow-witted beast" and castigated Fox News in particular as "an appendage of the Republican Party."
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Wearing a gray T-shirt, khaki pants and a healthy stubble, the "Daily Show" host told reporters at a University of Denver breakfast that Fox's "fair and balanced" slogan is an insult "to people with brains" and that only "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace ...
