For a person who was critical of everything around him, I don't think Jon Stewart got enough flak for his part in all of this. He regularly deflected criticism

For a person who was critical of everything around him, I don't think Jon Stewart got enough flak for his part in all of this. He regularly deflected criticism of when his show was blatantly being inaccurate or misleading. Even when he was presented with troubling studies about his show was the primary source of news for a growing body of young people. Whether you liked his show or not, this is now basically the model of journalism today. Left and right. The people who did all the hard work - actual interviewing and source gathering and factual reporting - are an increasingly small slice of news. You now have an ecosystem that just reprocesses the same stories over and over again from the same small set of primary sources.