We watch Jon Stewart almost every night, and have somewhat guiltily been getting a lot of our news from a comedian.
Last night’s interview of MSNBC‘s Madman Jim Cramer, after a week long series of pieces exposing the hypocrisy of Cramer and MSNBC, felt different, riveting, and somewhat liberating.
Going forward I’ll feel better about getting the news from Stewart:
I’ve come to accept that while perhaps Stewart is not the new Edward R. Murrow, the sad truth is that he is as close to a Murrow as we currently have. Isn’t it ironic that it takes satire on the Comedy Channel to do any sort of investigative reporting, ask the tough questions, and display relentless perseverance that the financial network shows have had no intestinal fortitude to conduct.
By the way I thought Jim Cramer handled himself well and was pretty forthright under the circumstances.
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