In Visit to Fox News, Jon Stewart Faults Fox News

[Elmore Furth]

The Fox Network sliced up the John Stewart interview to excise some of the more damning criticism of their network but apparently not all.

Unfair and unbalanced, as ususal

Parts of the interview (of the John Stewart by Bill O’Reilly) were shown on Wednesday and Thursday evenings on Fox News’s most popular program, “The O’Reilly Factor,” and were widely praised by television critics. But Mr. Stewart had a lot more to say about Fox in the portions of the interview that were edited out of the television broadcast.

The exchanges are notable because Mr. Stewart, the host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, has occasionally strayed beyond his comedy roots into serious media criticism and drawn great attention for doing so. On “Crossfire” on CNN in 2004, he claimed the left-right debate format was “hurting America,” three months before the program was canceled. Last year he took aim at CNBC for being Wall Street cheerleaders, telling Jim Cramer, the host of its “Mad Money” program, that “the financial news industry is not just guilty of a sin of omission but a sin of commission.”

This week, invited onto “The O’Reilly Factor” by its host, Mr. O’Reilly, Mr. Stewart asserted that Fox News was “the most passionate and sells the clearest narrative of any news organization,” then asked with a smirk, “are you still referring to it in that manner?”

In a segment cut from television, Mr. Stewart said: “Fox News used to be all about: ‘You don’t criticize a president during war time. It’s unacceptable. It’s treasonous. It’s giving aid and comfort to the enemy.’ All of a sudden, for some reason, you can run out there and say Barack Obama is destroying the fabric of this country.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/arts/television/06fox.html?hp">In Visit to Fox News, Jon Stewart Faults Fox News

[Swede]

1. You can't fault him for that.

:shrug:

[BootinUp]

2. Stewart is a treasure, Faux News is a pox on all our houses. nt

[beac]

4. Agreed. n/t

[brettdale]

3. Has jon said anything about that line being cut out

Has Jon said anything about that line being cut out?

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. I'm sure he will on Monday.

The Daily Show doesn't air on Friday, so he's got all weekend to plan his response. I know I'm looking forward to it. :evilgrin:

[Berry Cool]

5. Keith Olbermann featured the excised excerpts on Countdown tonight.

Seems Fixed Noise saw fit to put them online, even though it would not air them.

[brettdale]

8. Has anyone got a videoc clip of the line???

youtube perhaps?

[mdmc]

7. God Bless Jon Stewart

[John Kerry VonErich]

9. Why bother going on the channel in the first place.

That's a major problem with many (but not all) progressives who criticize Fox News. They dignify them with their appearance alone. Sad in itself.