Daily Show or CNN: Which is more serious?

[Eric J in MN]

http://www.iwtnews.com/node/389

You know a Jon Stewart zinger is especially funny when it makes it onto the "real news" the next day. Like this one on CNN's Daybreak this morning.

The Daily Show featured a clip from a recent Bush press conference. A reporter asks the President: "Given the recent surge in violence , do you agree with Vice President Dick Cheney's assessment that the insurgency is in its last throes?"

Bush answers by saying: "I think about Iraq every day. Every single day."

Stewart cuts in: "Really? You think about the war you started every day?"

(Laughter)

Stewart: "Yeah, I tie a little string around my finger. Sometimes -- sometimes I look down and I think to myself, 'What's that doing there?'"

(More laughter.)

CNN ended the clip there, with anchor Carol Costello's polite chuckle signaling the return of "the real news." The Daily Show clip was presented as a little guilty pleasure, like a fudge sundae for breakfast. "Something that might get you laughing this morning, because I know I need to laugh this morning," as Costello put it.

But then the CNN anchors agreed it was time to "move along" with the serious news. So what was CNN's very next story?

COSTELLO: It was a disappointing day for popsicle fans in New York.... This was the unveiling of a world record-sized popsicle. But it was thwarted by -- by -- it melted.


Carol Costello of CNN

[Bouncy Ball]

1. Well, I don't watch CNN

but if that popsicle story is something they consider "real news" then yes, The Daily Show is far more serious than CNN.

Wow. What a bizarro world we're living in.

[zinndependence]

2. hmmmm....

Now that would be an excellent bit for Stewart on tomorrow's show!

the irony.....

[Eric J in MN]

7. Completing the circle (nt)

nt

[illflem]

3. I've often wondered

if CNN's newscasters have any input on which news they broadcast.
If they do Costello is a hack worthy of Fox News.
The shame is she appeared to be much more liberal before the election then suddenly changed sides.

[Eric J in MN]

5. I think most of the CNN reporting by people in the studio is

reading off a teleprompter.

When they get to ask a question, I assume they choose it.

[Patty Diana]

10. word has it that their news is pre-approved by the Pentagon before airing

[MSgt213]

4. Yea Carol Costello poses as a reporter with the best of them. Her little

opinions about certain subjects keep me in stitches when the most part they show her ignorance on almost any subjects she and her weather sidekick decide to chime in on.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. That's not a fair question.

You're comparing a total fucking joke to serious, thoughtful television.

...

I mean, CNN didn't used to be a total fucking joke, but it certainly is now.

[Eric J in MN]

8. LOL

nt

[Cha]

9. I'm shocked that cnn showed

a clip of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart saying.."Stewart cuts in: "Really? You think about the war you started every day?"

After what Jon did when he went on crossfire and basically told tucker and begala they weren't doing their jobs.

Estactic to see this!

[stanwyck]

11. But MSNBC had this really important

interview (shown on TDS) with Ronald McDonald. Well, an actor playing Ronald McDonald...a created character played by a series of actors for a fast food franchise.
Yep. Network news is laughable. And TDS is serious.
A woman I work with asks this question all the time: "Why isn't CNN showing the video clips of Frist lying...making his diagnosis of Shiavo from the Senate floor...then angirly denying making the diagnosis? Or continually showing Cheney lying...or Bush lying". She keeps waiting for the network news to do their job and out this administration for the crooks and liars they are.
It's not going to happen. They're owned. They're on a leash.
DU, Kos, ..Jon Stewart, Al Franken. We've made our own tribe.
Forget the MSM.
They're too busy with popsicles and Ronald McDonald.

[Eric J in MN]

12. What did MSNBC ask "Ronadl McDonald?"

nt

[stanwyck]

13. About kids' fitness

Ronald is now thinner and has a new gym clothes wardrobe. He's going to help kids fight obesity.
But that doesn't mean telling kids to avoid Micky D.'s, of course. And the Big Macs and Biggie Fries.
It's just more Rovian spin. It's the appearance of caring. While continuing to rake in the money on food that is destroying our health.
And MSNBC just laughed and acted all cutesy.

[LightningFlash]

14. Wow, a corporate shill....

What a shocker. They have to ignore DSM and cover popsicles. :eyes:

[elperromagico]

15. Well... The Daily Show deals with serious matters in a ridiculous way.

CNN deals with ridiculous matters in a serious way.

I give the edge to The Daily Show.

[BelgianMadCow]

16. TDS has the edge for me too

and you said it much better.

[deacon]

17. Daily show is much more accurate-- for something to be funny

the premise must always be factual. The film clips represent the premise and he slams them with a punch line that people can identify with--an earthiness that connects with real people.

Air brushed bimbos and bimdudes fall flat, novak's and hannity's and carlson's are become nothing but a parody of themselves with their trite worn our, hackneyed rhetoric.