When Jon Stewart went on to to talk about ideology and partisanship and Fox News and MSNBC, by way of comparing cable news to his show he came up with the analogy which -- I may be the only person who thinks this but -- I think is not a great analogy. "One of my favorite things..Anderson Cooper, I think he does a really nice job, and he's fun to watch. He's got a bit on his show that I love called 'Keeping Them Honest,' which is just so funny to me, because...it'd be like me [saying] I've got a new segment called 'Telling Jokes To An Audience'...isn't that what this whole thing is."
I actually don't think so, but I think it is being presented here as an alternative to which we can use to save MSNBC/cable news. There are a lot of issues, and a lot of events that are not problems of corruption or dishonesty. "Keeping them honest" would not work, in covering Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, or a devastating storm causing destruction, or the actual facts of Climate Change. (Unfortunately, there needs to be such a segment regarding *coverage* of Climate Change.) There are many issues where there are an actual ideological difference in opinion and we can't wish it away, just because party partisans use and abuse ideological disagreements to gain power. I know Keith Olbermann believes changing the health care system is a good idea given how much he has spent in advocacy of it on his own show. However, you can't really separate that from the politics of the issue as that is an obstacle as is pointing out why the system is the way it is and who benefits from keeping the status quo. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
