"This Song Ain't About You": The Media Misses the Real Message of the Stewart/Cramer Interview

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from HuffPost:



Daniel Sinker
"This Song Ain't About You": The Media Misses the Real Message of the Stewart/Cramer Interview


If you didn't watch Jon Stewart's interview with Mad Money's Jim Cramer last night, don't worry--it's unavoidable today. Here's just a selection of front pages from news sites around the web: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-sinker/this-song-aint-about-you_b_174851.html


Yes, you're seeing that right: the Governor of Illinois (the new one, that is) floating a trial balloon about a 50% tax hike plays second fiddle to coverage of Stewart/Cramer (this discrepancy is followed up even more by Our Man in Chicago). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-sinker/this-song-aint-about-you_b_174851.html


It took a little while for the Grey Lady to join in the fun, but she's touting the story big now. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-sinker/this-song-aint-about-you_b_174851.html


Yes, even this very website, touted as a standout of journalism's online future, gets in on the fun.

And why not, right? It's the thing everyone's talking about--in part because the media has built it up as something to talk about. Which is exactly the problem: it misses the point entirely.

Near the end of the interview (which, if somehow you haven't seen it, is worth watching), Cramer begins to weasel out an explanation to Stewart (the specifics are unimportant, but if you need to know it involved why Cramer utilizes banana cream pies in his financial program) when Stewart interrupts him and says, indignantly, "As Carly Simon would say, 'This song ain't about you.'" It was a point largely lost on Cramer, who continued to defend his own show against Stewart's much larger indictment, but it was also a point lost on the many media outlets that covered this basic cable dustup as actual, honest-to-god news. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-sinker/this-song-aint-about-you_b_174851.html

[BeFree]

1. The real message is...

...you are being lied to. Every one of the talking heads is lying.

Stewart lies and tells you he's lying... the rest of them, shoot, they lie to themselves. And believe their lies.

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2. NPR's piece was equally superficial -surprise surprise not

NPR is as worthless these days as any of the other MSM. They parrott whatever everyone else is saying in three-syllable words and call it "analysis."

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3. Yeah, NPR has really gone into the crapper. I call the one show "Stale Air".....

..... instead of "Fresh Air."

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4. The point was not necessarily lost on the M$M.

Buried by them is a better way of putting it. They took a generic condemnation and turned it into a personal attack on Cramer. This is a standard tool for changing the topic and trivializing substantive issues.

[bread_and_roses]

5. How right you are - or rather, how correct! (n/t)

[pretzel4gore]

6. the big lie, the defrauding...

both issues are leaking into view...lol: the lie created the fraud (bush) which enabled more lies which resulted in bigger frauds...911 911...911. Imagine if THAT ever gets tied up with the big lie and the defrauding ($50 trillion missing)!
poor Barack. he's gotta pump out the boat or it'll sink.....and while he's p/p ing out the sinker, the rats are trying to get away, but ...everybody's watching, darn it! So, look out for some vast terror 'event' veddy veddy soon (they hijack a nuke power plant, or something(?)) to keep yall occupied ...klol