There’s Hope Yet

Jon Stewart is god. Note the capitalization: not the God, in the typical sense of an omnipotent, omniscient, vengeful creator of all. Lord knows (again, not that Lord – this guy sells ponchos in Berkeley) I don’t want to incur the wrath of any possible-but-not-probable all-seeing creator who lives in the sky, on the off chance that I’m wrong and he actually does exist. Nevertheless, blasphemy aside, Jon Stewart is a god.

“But Brendon,” I hear you, my entirely fictitious readership, asking, “Why is Jon Stewart a god?”

Simple – his is the only news show, ironically, not willing to follow the mainstream press’ script, choosing instead to ask the tough questions. Well, the only one in the US at least – those Irish reporters have been spoiling for a fight. The Irish never submit, never answer to anybody. Apparently their reporters aren’t too fond of submitting questions in advance either.

Nobody gets their news from “news” programs anymore – they never seem break the important stories first, if at all, anymore. No wonder people are turning to comedy shows for their political coverage. How weird is this? The quality of news programs has been deteriorating for years into entertainment disguised as news – but it appears to work both ways? While the press may sneer at the “reporters” on Entertainment Tonight, at least Kojo has the balls to come up with his own questions rather than letting his interviewees’ handlers suggest fashion questions.

To the rest of press, I can only offer this suggestion: start studying your notes – you might learn something.