Jon Stewart Mocks Media Reaction To Michael Hastings' Ability To Do Actual Journalism (VIDEO) UPDATE

[Jefferson23]

* Excellent observation about the complicite and incompetent MSM...hilarious too.


Rolling Stone's digital media strategy aside, I'm a bit dumbstruck at the way the traditional media have treated the magazine's story on General Stanley McChrystal as some sort of flukey journalistic junkshot that no one could have possibly expected.

Chris Matthews, bless his stuck-in-the-1970s heart, was agog this past Tuesday that a beacon of the "counterculture" could have ever gained access to McChrystal. I sort of wondered why the traditional media couldn't have done more, with all of their access!

So I was glad to see that "The Daily Show" took up the matter last night, with Jon Stewart mocking these past few days, in which "America's finest reporters" have been beside themselves with wonder at how a Rolling Stone reporter pulled off "reporting." Quipped Stewart: "At approximately 11:04 Eastern Standard Time, the American news media finally realized they kind of sucked."

snip* Stewart gives good quip on this regard:

STEWART: But the real shock to these reporters was what this Rolling Stone journalist would be giving up.

CELESTE HEADLEE, NPR; You obviously were not worried about access in the future; I can't imagine you're going to get it.

STEWART: Yeah... I don't need it anymore... I got this amazing story.


WATCH:

video at link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/24/jon-stewart-mocks-media-r_n_623956.html

[ejpoeta]

1. i know. stewart hits it right on the head. the 'journalists' have been so worried about

losing access that they don't fucking do their jobs. they are basically recorders just copying what they are told without bothering to check the damned facts so that each outlet has the same story.... well they add their particular political spin to that story, but never delve anywhere past the surface. and whenever anyone actually does their job as a journalist they are all surprised. wow!

[Jefferson23]

2. Can you imagine if we did not have him and Colbert, such a pathetic

commentary on the MSM...sickens me.

[rocktivity]

3. Jeez, WHAT did that evil reporter do to poor innocent helpless McChrystal and Co.

to make them so willingly embarrass themselves, undermine their CIC and end their military careers?

But seriously, folks, I'm not the least bit surprised that the MSM is throwing away the military codebook to justify piling on this guy.

:eyes:
rocktivity

[girl gone mad]

4. I heard the NPR interview.

It seemed almost like she was mocking him for doing real journalism.