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These types of shows were based on showing short clips of someone saying something, then cutting back to Stewart with a shocked face. Reminds me of this commen

These types of shows were based on showing short clips of someone saying something, then cutting back to Stewart with a shocked face. Reminds me of this comment on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11104428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11104428 The poster does not know Fry, the award winner or their relationship but the first thing that comes to mind is shock: How could he say such a thing when we can interpret it in the worst possible way.

kylestlb 9y ago
This is in no way unique to The Daily Show or The Colbert Report (both of which were on a Comedy channel, but I digress). Lots of TV news programs are attempting to curate your opinion based on carefully cherry picked nuggets of information. Nancy Grace, Rachel Maddow, Bill O'Reilly (used to be at least), et al. The 'show clip -> explain outrage' is a news trope that won't be going anywhere anytime soon. Maybe we should focus on the individual merits of these shows instead of unilaterally deciding that they are a general cause of some aspect of society that you may think is problematic.