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Apr. 30th, 2006 12:11 amWhy is it that the Daily Show and the Colbert Report (two shows that are fake news shows) some of the only shows that actually do their fucking jobs? Watch Steven Colbert take apart (in a funny way) noted neo-con and war promoter Bill Kristol here (via Crooks and Liars) (about 16Mb, 6 minutes long or so). There's a transcript here, but it doesn't do full justice to the piece. The whole interview is also quite a bit longer than the bit in the transcript.
The daily show, in particular, is one of the few shows on TV (in the US or here) that actually has a notion of memory. That is, when someone stands up and publically claims something that is obviously false and contradicts what they'd previously said, they will show the old videotape footage showing this. Why don't people do this more? It's not hard, it's in fact very very easy. But that might be considered challenging or assertive, and the modern school of journalism obviously wouldn't want that. I mean, there's fad diets, the latest about Tom Cruise's baby, and UTTER UTTER CRAP to promote, instead.
To pick a recent example that nearly made me throw the paper across the room: A few days ago, Federal Minister for Screwing Over People Who Work For A Living Kevin Andrews came out whining and bitching that the Victorian government was wasting taxpayer dollars running adverts against the Federal IR laws. This is terrible, obviously - I mean, it's not like the federal liberals don't spend tens or hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars promoting their own legislation, is it? Oh - wait, yes it is. And did this so-called reporter actually mention this? Nope. Did they even hint at the screaming hypocrisy of this? Nope again.
Argh. Argh. Argh.
The daily show, in particular, is one of the few shows on TV (in the US or here) that actually has a notion of memory. That is, when someone stands up and publically claims something that is obviously false and contradicts what they'd previously said, they will show the old videotape footage showing this. Why don't people do this more? It's not hard, it's in fact very very easy. But that might be considered challenging or assertive, and the modern school of journalism obviously wouldn't want that. I mean, there's fad diets, the latest about Tom Cruise's baby, and UTTER UTTER CRAP to promote, instead.
To pick a recent example that nearly made me throw the paper across the room: A few days ago, Federal Minister for Screwing Over People Who Work For A Living Kevin Andrews came out whining and bitching that the Victorian government was wasting taxpayer dollars running adverts against the Federal IR laws. This is terrible, obviously - I mean, it's not like the federal liberals don't spend tens or hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars promoting their own legislation, is it? Oh - wait, yes it is. And did this so-called reporter actually mention this? Nope. Did they even hint at the screaming hypocrisy of this? Nope again.
Argh. Argh. Argh.
