mediamatters.org - 10/30/2009
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Stewart annihilates Fox News' purported opinion-news division: "It's a perpetual revulsion machine" From the October 29 edition of Comedy Central's The Daily Show:
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Rising Hegemon —
Jon Stewart sums up the alleged "newsy" part of Fox&News;:
'A perpetual revulsion machine'
Political Animal —
... and MSNBC are bookends on the ideological spectrum: "Just as Fox News leans to the right with their opinionated hosts in prime time, MSNBC leans left. I don't think anyone at Fox or MSNBC would disagree." It's hard to overstate how wrong this is. It's a fundamentally lazy way of looking at the larger media dynamic, and those who make the argument -- which is to say, a whole lot of D.C. political media establishment -- almost certainly haven't watched much in the way of cable news. Jon Stewart's segment on Fox News this week is worth watching. He notes at the outset that a ...
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