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Related: About this forumJon Stewart, Daily Show Team Rip CNN Apart for Confusing, Frenzied Shooting Coverage - video link
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Jon Stewart opened Tuesday nights Daily Show with a powerful indictment of how cable news covered the Washington Navy Yard shooting, aimed squarely at the breathless wrongness of CNN. Stewart spent not one, but two whole segments mercilessly tearing CNN apart for how awfully it covered the shooting, especially all the unnecessary speculation.
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Jon Stewart, Daily Show Team Rip CNN Apart for Confusing, Frenzied Shooting Coverage - video link (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Sep 2013
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adirondacker
(2,921 posts)1. LMAO! "It's like walking down the street with a 5 year old"
LiberalFighter
(50,779 posts)2. Experienced speculating. What a bunch of dumb asses!
We efn don't need 24/7 on this crap.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)3. "Infotainment" isn't up to the task of real news....
What I find annoying is when an event happens and each show host gives their own slant on it.
Even if you like the show host.
Cha
(296,800 posts)4. Thanks Tx.. and I read Chuck Todd named another person as the
shooter before the real one was divulged.
Thanks Jon
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)5. We know it will be a lone gunman in the end, so don't trust those eyewitnesses /nt