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"Are you trying to make this OJ?": Jon Stewart warns media's Trump trial coverage could backfire (www.salon.com)

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Daily Show host blasts media for treating the "most mundane bulls**t" as "Earth-shattering"

Comedian Jon Stewart on Monday launched into a fiery rant aimed at the media coverage of former President Donald Trump's hush money trial in the latest episode of "The Daily Show."

Stewart spent a portion of Monday's segment lambasting media outlets for their coverage of Trump's criminal trial unfolding in Manhattan, in which prosecutors have alleged that he falsified business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election.

“This trial will obviously be a test of the fairness of the American legal system, but it’s also a test of the media’s ability to cover Donald Trump in a responsible way. A task they have acknowledged they’ve performed poorly in the past,” Stewart said before showing a montage of clips from notable outlets like CNN and MSNBC acknowledging that they need to give less obsessive attention to the former president's every antic.

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[-] yesman@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

Cable news' job is to sell advertising. Nelson is the judge of how well their doing.

This is what's so frustrating about neolibs like Jon. They think a call to honor, or perhaps some light regulation can reform capitalism. And even sillier, they imagine that a responsible cable news would somehow lead to an informed electorate.

This is an old schtick for Stuart. Fox News is crazy and CNN is stupid. Both sides, you guys. Please don't look at the incentive structure behind the curtain.

[-] rezifon@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

Even if all that is true, Stewart is still 100% correct here

[-] psmgx@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

Literally textbook deflection and whataboutism. And within the first 3 posts, which means it has a 70-80% chance to derail a thread, assuming regular rebuttals

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago

Cable news’ job is to report the news.

A few decades ago, we had this thing called Fairness Doctrine, which more or less forced news organizations to behave as, well, news organizations first and foremost. But then Reagan decided we didn’t need to worry about that anymore, and Fairness Doctrine was repealed, and the quality of news as a public service in the United States has declined precipitously since that point.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Nelson is the judge of how well their doing.

So they're frantically trying to avoid this?

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago

I think that’s one of the things people like about Jon Stewart - the idealism. You’re right, though. You can’t make capitalism change by ignoring it.

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