Daily Show host blasts media for treating the "most mundane bulls**t" as "Earth-shattering."

Daily Show host blasts media for treating the “most mundane bulls**t” as “Earth-shattering”

Comedian Jon Stewart on Monday launched into a fiery rant aimed at the media coverage of former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in the latest episode of “The Daily Show.”

Stewart spent a portion of Monday’s segment lambasting media outlets for their coverage of Trump’s criminal trial unfolding in Manhattan, in which prosecutors have alleged that he falsified business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election.

“This trial will obviously be a test of the fairness of the American legal system, but it’s also a test of the media’s ability to cover Donald Trump in a responsible way. A task they have acknowledged they’ve performed poorly in the past,” Stewart said before showing a montage of clips from notable outlets like CNN and MSNBC acknowledging that they need to give less obsessive attention to the former president’s every antic.

    • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      2 months ago

      At the same time, his leaving was also a success story in itself. He had all the money he ever needed in life, he was at the top of his game except just was exhausted working that continual grind, and was feeling his age so unlike e.g. any member of Congress, decided to voluntarily relinquish his power in order to create room for new people to step up, while he went on to blaze entirely new pioneer territory outside of mainstream TV, which was quite a risk even for someone like him. Wow… what a class act! 😍

      • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        Just that the new people that should have stepped up where mere shadows of Jon, unfortunately

        • rigatti@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          John Oliver stepped up, although not on the Daily Show itself. I’m always excited to have something new ruined for me every week.

          • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Afaict he is the last “investigative journalist” left in America, though he is biased himself, yet who else comes close that amount of depth?

            • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months ago

              There are loads of investigative journalists they just don’t have the audience size these satirists have.

              Propublica does insane work. PBS Frontline as well. Amanapour. Many stories break from the likes of WaPo as well.