WaPo: Cable Funnyman Rips Cable News

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Cable Funnyman Rips Cable News
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 25, 2008; 1:37 PM

DENVER, Aug. 25 -- Jon Stewart ripped the cable news networks Monday as a "brutish, slow-witted beast" and castigated Fox News as "an appendage of the Republican Party."

Wearing a gray T-shirt and a healthy stubble, the "Daily Show" host told reporters that Fox's fair-and-balanced slogan is "a (expletive) you to people with brains" and that only "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace "saves that network from slapping on a bumper sticker . . . Barack Obama could cure cancer and they'd figure out a way to frame it as an economic disaster."

"I'm stunned to see Karl Rove on a news network as an analyst," he said of the Bush White House aide-turned Fox commentator.

But Stewart included CNN and MSNBC in a far-ranging indictment of what he called "that false sense of urgency they create, the sense that everything is breaking news. . . . The 24-hour networks are now driving the narratives and everyone else is playing catch-up."

Stewart declared his love for newspapers as a better source of political coverage, but said they are fighting "a losing battle because they're getting overshadowed." He pronounced the network evening newscasts "obsolete" because of the growing speed of news, and he predicted they will die.

More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100587.html

It's good and everything, but that headline sounds kind of funny to me, like this would be news. Stewart has been "ripping cable news" almost every working day for 8 years, plus.

the headline should say (yet again) at the end

oh well