It turns out that Stewart has a lot to learn about reporting the truth.
In their bid to come up with new material each day, Stewart writers and producers will, more often than not, gravitate towards what they believe are the easiest targets to poke fun at, and will always take extra care to test the wind and make sure they are within the majority public opinion within their audience demographic on each single issue they turn into a skit. So it’s no surprise they would run with mainstream mythology regarding Ferguson and NYC – namely, that both incidents were racially motivated and then proceeded to flash up on screen the faces and names of ‘noteworthy’ black victims of police shootings in America.
Stewart believes that he’s safely above any critical judgement of the obvious politics he and his team inject into their ‘comedy sketches’. He hides behind the cloak of comedy because he doesn’t want to commit to doing hard news and having to deal with all the reality and course politics which come with that. He’s a latter-day court jester to the establishment, nothing more, nothing less.
For the show’s producers, their Ferguson ‘race angle’ seemed like a safe, shallow angle to take, but according to all available evidence and testimonies about those incidents – there was no racial discrimination involved either case. But that’s not the worse gaffe in this skit… Full story...
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In their bid to come up with new material each day, Stewart writers and producers will, more often than not, gravitate towards what they believe are the easiest targets to poke fun at, and will always take extra care to test the wind and make sure they are within the majority public opinion within their audience demographic on each single issue they turn into a skit. So it’s no surprise they would run with mainstream mythology regarding Ferguson and NYC – namely, that both incidents were racially motivated and then proceeded to flash up on screen the faces and names of ‘noteworthy’ black victims of police shootings in America.
Stewart believes that he’s safely above any critical judgement of the obvious politics he and his team inject into their ‘comedy sketches’. He hides behind the cloak of comedy because he doesn’t want to commit to doing hard news and having to deal with all the reality and course politics which come with that. He’s a latter-day court jester to the establishment, nothing more, nothing less.
For the show’s producers, their Ferguson ‘race angle’ seemed like a safe, shallow angle to take, but according to all available evidence and testimonies about those incidents – there was no racial discrimination involved either case. But that’s not the worse gaffe in this skit… Full story...
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