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 attempti

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.