Why I love Jon Stewart

The MSM missed it because they refuse to think that far right wing may be right, so they just fluff it off as conspiracy nut jobs. Newspapers are dying. They won't commit the resources to investigate something like this if they think it is a conspiracy deal. The television media can afford to do it; but theirs is a world of intellectual vapidism dominated by a cast of people who look good and likely got the worst grades in journalism school, if they even went through it. Then everyone on radio just screams and yells at each other. (yes, all hyperbole) It is as much bias as it is the fact that the vast majority of the people who are in control of the mainstream media would not know a real news story if it fell on them like an anvil from the sky. I can almost count on one hand the number of people in the mainstream media who seem to be capable of good investigative reporting. It is practically dead. A lot of investigative reporters started at the lower levels of local news or local papers. Those jobs are long gone or, the ones that are left, are too busy doing the story on the worst restaurants in town because it looks great for fear mongering sweeps week. I don't think I have seen a good investigative report on local political corruption in years. The only time you hear of something is when a local reporter surprises a government official who proceeds to run, climb a fence and try to get away from the reporter(true story of the last corruption case I saw three years ago). Heck, the local city commission where I live blatantly ignored the city charter two weeks ago and only the local paper, who has decided to focus on local news and leave national news to one page a day, even covered it and protested it. However, no one reads the paper that much anymore. The local tv stations had 30 seconds, if that.

Media is broken from the bottom up. As local news was destroyed, it has slowly destroyed the ability at higher levels and the Peter Principle took over leaving us with a mainstream media that is about as useful as an old Gremlin on blocks in three foot high grass.

And that is EXACTLY right Brian. Maybe Jon could put together a collage of his incorrect statements and spoof himself. And Jon doesn't really get to close to hot button issues in the internal Democratic battle. I did not see much outrage when the Obama camp accused the Clintons of racism. I didn't see him play that bus beating and ask if the colors were reversed would Democrats accept the "no racism" label? Nor did I see him make fun of the new scientific reports declaring a period of global cooling.

Maybe when China is drilling for gas off the coast of Florida, he'll make fun of that. Still, how can you not laugh at Ernie. I think in the end, Jon has this in mind: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?

I think Obama might be wondering this too.....

stories end up being noise on the fringe, one ought to do their job and report on them, because once in awhile, they end up being something.