Jon Stewart Rips Fox News A New One
Jon Stewart is much more brave than Tim Pawlenty. He’s willing to bring his criticisms about Fox News right to the source. He’s much more blunt in this interview with Chris Wallace than he ever is on The Daily Show.
Steve Benen follows up with some facts about Fox News viewers and their misinformation:
The quantifiable evidence is overwhelming. Eight years ago, just six months into the war in Iraq, the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland found that those who relied on the Republican network were “three times more likely than the next nearest network to hold all three misperceptions — about WMD in Iraq, Saddam Hussein was involved with 9/11, and foreign support for the U.S. position on the war in Iraq.”
As Ben Armbruster noted a while back, “An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll out [in 2009] found that Fox News viewers were overwhelmingly misinformed about health care reform proposals. A 2008 Pew study ranked Fox News last in the number of ‘high knowledge’ viewers and a 2007 Pew poll ranked Fox viewers as the least knowledgeable about national and international affairs.”
This comes as a surprise to no one except Fox viewers and Chris Wallace. Try as we might, the budding left-wing media has not been able to change this much. The media is still more afraid of being called liberal than of being called uniformative.
Tags: Chris Wallace, Fox News, Jon Stewart
Any bets on whether Wallace will actually have Stewart back on?
Stewart was awfully good here — and the thing he accomplished here was showing how much shtick this whole “liberal bias” thing is from Fox. Because while Wallace was trying the usual “Justify This!” tactic from wingnuts, Stewart had to keep reminding him that he wasn’t a journalist. AND it seemed to go right over Wallace’s head that Stewart makes a nightly show — and gets paid for it — by pointing and laughing at the unseriousness of the media. In other words, the way to stop being fodder for his show is completely in their (and any other media outlet’s) hands.
And what Fox Noise does is to use this laziness to tell its viewers that there is a so-called “other side of the story”. When it isn’t another side — it is largely propaganda specifically targeted to a bunch of people inclined to themselves as being victims of the world, anyway.
Chris is trying to show everyone that he’s smarter than his father. Unfortunately, Chris was the Wallace child that received the dim bulb gene. I’m surprised his father hasn’t disowned him.
Chris Wallace has no chance of being anywhere near the journalist his father is……
Nah, Wallace is just a whore. He knows exactly what he does and what he’s there for. It’s the paycheck that matters to him.