I know I'm jumping back in the conversation a bit, but I'd say it's a journalist's job to ferret out the truth - something that's unfortunately both lacking and waning in the US. For the system to work as designed there should be an antagonistic relationship between the four branches of government (colloquially and importantly including the press), where each pulls against the other to make the whole system stronger. Once one (or, as it has been, three) bow to the executive - willingly or forced - corruption floods in.

The conversation - enlightning as it is - brought me back to the famous interview between Jeremy Paxman and Michael Howard (https://videosift.com/video/Classic-Repeated-Question-Avoidance-By-A-Politician) where Paxman repeats the same question 12 times in 90 seconds to try to get a straight answer. This is respect for the office and disrespect for the man who shames it.

At the risk of trying to be smarter than big Noam am I the only one not surprised that Obama can't control a multi-trillion dollar war machine that's been doing it's own thing since '45? The only president to ever really try was JFK..

Btw that's Jeremy Paxman interviewing, probably for BBC newsnight.

>> ^acidSpine:

I dont think Israel really gives a shit about what the rest of the people on Earth think as long as big daddy has it's back. Slowly but surely Israels' goals will be achieved and any atrocities committed along the way will fade into the cosmic background noise of injustice felt by all the unpeople of the world


They're going to start grasping at straws soon though. There's tons of pressure from within now more than there ever has been. They can't keep this up forever thankfully, sadly they also have nuclear weapons so there's another lovely thing.

>> ^Stormsinger:

I wish we could just farm out our news to the Brits and Comedy Central? Seems like it would drastically improve the quality of the reporting.


what's sad is the vast majority of British news is still utter shit.

>> ^messenger:
No. You should be glad Stewart is in comedy. He only has license to do this kind of show because he's a comedian. It's not an unfortunate coincidence. Do you really think there's nobody ? Of course, there are plenty TV personalities who are as intelligent, knowledgeable, and skillful at journalism as him, but they work for news organizations, and they'd lose their careers for doing an interview like that.
I'd trust someone who bills themselves as a comedian before I trusted someone who billed themselves as a reporter. We all should.
>> ^NetRunner:
Personally, I think this is one more moment where Jon Stewart proves that he's a better journalist than the so-called pros.
....
It's a shame he's so locked into the mode of comedy, I'd love to give him his own 24 hour news network to run, I think he'd destroy the others.


In fairness, a reporter who comes close to that Jeremy Paxman, he earned his nickname for a reason.

>> ^ant:
l>> ^rottenseed:
internet killed the television star

What will kill the Internet?


Legislation

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Absolutely, I feel like the Internet is already putting it through torture - or at least that's what all the reality TV programming is like to me.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Can I water board TV before you suffocate it? Please, please, please!

In reply to this comment by dag:
When TV is on its death bed, I'll be happy to put the pillow over its face.

What - too dark?

>> ^Tracon:
>> ^ant:
l>> ^rottenseed:
internet killed the television star

What will kill the Internet?

The hive mind. YOU REQUIRE MOAR VESPENE GAS.


Aiur shall not fall! Executor, I stand ready!

>> ^ant:
l>> ^rottenseed:
internet killed the television star

What will kill the Internet?


The hive mind. YOU REQUIRE MOAR VESPENE GAS.

>> ^ant:

What will kill the Internet?


In my opinion, it died when that Numa Numa video came out.

l>> ^rottenseed:
internet killed the television star


What will kill the Internet?

Can I water board TV before you suffocate it? Please, please, please!

In reply to this comment by dag:
When TV is on its death bed, I'll be happy to put the pillow over its face.

What - too dark?

>> ^dannym3141:
Because afaik the opinion on him is that he's often too interested in trying to be scathing to actually concentrate on the stuff that's being said.


I would describe repeating the same question over and over until the interviewee stops dodging it precisely as "concentrating on the stuff that's being said" (even though, yes, that makes him look somewhat scathing).

"The blogsphere is place where everyone can scream and no one needs to listen"

- Jeremy Paxman

it's Jeremy Paxman not Jeremy Clarkson