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My takeaway has been that Stewart, Oliver, and others are humorously pointing out hypocrisy and trying to get people to question the completely one sided, super
by jkmcf 11y ago
My takeaway has been that Stewart, Oliver, and others are humorously pointing out hypocrisy and trying to get people to question the completely one sided, superficial portrayals of the mainstream media. Stewart would go after CNN just as much as Fox, though perhaps for different reasons...
- krapp 11y agoThe media, at least, has a standard to fail to meet when it falls prey to bias, becomes a mouthpiece for the government, or panders to sponsors or corporate interests. Even if Stewart, Oliver, etc. do call out the media, government, and corporations for their hypocrisy (and they deserve to be called out) they have no standards to meet other than to be funny. They have no incentive to be honest or fair about what they do - arguably, their incentive is to be dishonest and biased if doing so meets the expectations of their audience.