washingtonpost.com— Jon Stewart ripped the cable news networks Monday as a "brutish, slow-witted beast" and castigated Fox News in particular as "an appendage of the Republican Party."
Aug 26, 2008View in Crawl 4
He's right. 24 hour news has created our culture of making a big deal out of non-news. There was a time that news presented events that happened. Now they present opinions, suppositions, rumors and scandal. All because they have to fill time and get ratings. It has been the death of responsible journalism.
shupyAug 27, 2008
He's right. 24 hour news has created our culture of making a big deal out of non-news. There was a time that news presented events that happened. Now they present opinions, suppositions, rumors and scandal. All because they have to fill time and get ratings. It has been the death of responsible journalism.