Jon Stewart on Rachel Maddow Show: Just wow.by: elwoodThu Nov 11, 2010 at 22:18:37 PM EST |
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I just watched a full hour (well, a commercial TV hour) conversation between Maddow and Stewart. It was wonk heaven. He was appearing in part, he said, because he wanted to address some concerns / criticisms about the meta-rally he and Colbert held.
One of the criticisms is that Stewart practices false equivalence: carefully pairing any mention of easily-found right-wing extremism with a mention of harder-to-find left-wing extremism. He was ready for that discussion. Stewart apparently spends his free time thinking about meta and media and how it affects public perception. (I think Maddow could have challenged him more here - not her style though, and she usually does well letting interviewees speak. Is it the nature of his show to always demonstrate skepticism of both sides? Is it structurally harder for him to say "No contest here, these guys are telling the truth and these other guys are lying?" Stewart talked about a climate problem with cable news; is there a climate problem with his style of comedy?) Highly recommended. She'll post the full interview, longer than the broadcast, sometime tomorrow morning. |