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Originally Posted by Centurion
So true..they actually cut through the bullshit better than any network news.
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Couldn't you imagine if the news networks operated more like the Daily Show, minus the comedy?
You might not have 50%+ of the voting population believing that they found WMD in Iraq.
The best part of the daily show is when they show the ridiculousness of the news networks. Last week or two weeks ago they showed a clip from CNN of two people arguing about whether gays should be allowed to adopt kids. The women against it said that a study showed that kids were eleven times more likely to be molested with gay parents. Of course the guy in favor of gay adoption said that he had never heard anything like that. The survey was actually just done by some nutcase using lexisnexis, it was completely false. The CNN "reporter" ends with "two very good arguments" or some bullshit like that. Stewart started yelling at her, "you're a reporter". It was classic. He often says exactly what I feel when I watch network and cable news.
Watching CNN and Fox makes people stupid, period. I think it was Yale who did the study that found that people who watch the Daily Show were more informed than people who watch Fox news. Now that's a sad state of affairs.