Jon Stewart lectures reporters:

[elleng]

"In a breakfast with reporters, Stewart directed most of his ire at the 24-hour cable news networks, which he called "gerbil wheels," and said the media at-large had "abdicated" to what he called the "slow-witted beast."

He said the never-ending television news cycle creates a "false sense of urgency" and forces reporters to "follow the veins that have been mined," instead of pursuing serious and in-depth reporting."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/25/jon-stewart-lectures-repo_n_121247.html

[KharmaTrain]

1. A New Term Is Born..."Gerbil Wheel"

I love it...Bravo Jon.

:applause:

This afternoon Barnacled Mike Plagarist admitted the obvious...the convention isn't a news story...the nominees were known and they know this even is scripted to the millisecond, but they needed to stir shit to create a sizzle...to keep eyes watching...just like a moronic reality show.

Thank goodness for the "internets"...the place where real news now lives.

[But....]

2. It's scary...

when you have to go to comedy shows to get your news :wtf: but if Jon continues with these lessons :spank: there may be some hope for the MSM:rofl:

[zootlux]

3. Jon lights my way...

and, Karl Rove never did actually blossom .. Bush lied. Rove is just a barren feces... a sinker.

Inkling

[brettdale]

4. I wish

He would do a serious new show, he is brilliant.

[Kitty Herder]

5. K&R Out of the mouths of comedians.... Er, something like that. nt

[tavalon]

6. It was back when I saw him take the Crossfire folks to task,

that I realized that while his medium is comedy, his passion is politics. There is a reason The Daily Show is so damn good.

[lazyriver]

8. That Crossfire piece was brilliant...one of my all time favorites. nt

[Hubert Flottz]

7. Wolf Blitzkreig sounds like he's in a constant strain...

I wonder where his Gerbil Wheel is located?