![]() ![]() The meal would be so nourishing, the conversation so lively, the feast so grand, that that part would just work itself out. There would still be one huge audience, but now instead of being forced to crowd around a trough to guzzle slop, they would join together as one to break bread.Īnd nobody would have to worry about the money. He was convinced that you could keep all the business structures basically the same, and just replace the media’s phony reality with an authentic one. The problem was that he misunderstood what made the monolithic mass media world a financial success. How did Jon Stewart’s dream become his nightmare? In his mind he hears a high-pitched whine and smells the sickly whiff of fresh bowtie. It’s a name from his past, a name that sends a chill down his spine and turns him pale. Only then, like Scrooge in the graveyard, does he see the name on the host’s chair. ![]() Jon Stewart was right and the suits were wrong. They didn’t believe in Americans at all.īut people are watching, by the millions. ![]() They didn’t believe Americans would watch this. Corporate shills didn’t think it could make money - and they didn’t want it to. The old world of journalism is finally dying and this is the new one. The host tells you straight what he really thinks and why it matters. Gone is the view from nowhere, which was just a cover for manipulative slant. This show doesn’t let politicians duck behind talking points, but makes them say where they really stand on the issues. Gone are the manufactured news cycles on gaffes and the horse race. Reports about ideological indoctrination in public schools. Reports about warmongering elites lying so they can send working-class kids to die across the world. Reports about the billionaires who lined their pockets on the opioid crisis. No more treating politics like a staged wrestling match, only authentic single-warrior combat.Īnd the show does real reporting too, hard-hitting exposés on the issues other shows ignore. But now it’s only real disagreement about the issues that matter to real Americans. On this new show, yes, figures from across the political spectrum come to argue. It staged fake confrontations with powerful people to protect them from real accountability. Presidential aspirants doing eighth-grade debate theater. Talking points and “spin rooms” and canned zingers. Simpson, Monica Lewinsky, endless coverage of the Laci Peterson disappearance … hour after hour of filler. From the Special Series: Reality: A Post-Mortemįor decades, Americans were fed a news diet of mass-produced garbage. ![]()
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