Jon Stewart Annihilates Fox News' Purported Division Between Opinion & News

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Run time: 06:38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRyLekYFq2Q   Posted on YouTube: October 31, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 31, 2009 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 2273

 
I'm not sure how long this will last on YouTube so here's the Media Matters version just in case it gets pulled: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200910290044

The comments on there are worth a read too.

Fox admits only nine hours a day of programming is ‘news,’ Daily Show notes

By David Edwards

"Before the president began talking -- we don't know if there was a correlation -- the Dow was up 28. The Dow is now down 28 points. We'll keep our eyes focused on that." - Fox News Channel

The Daily Show's Jon Stewart tore into Fox News Channel Thursday, highlighting the extent to which he believes it serves as a communications arm for the Republican Party, and alleging that the line between Fox's "opinion" programming and "news" programming aren't as disparate as the channel claims.

"According to Fox, the weekday news programming -- and this is according to Fox -- runs from 9:00 to 4:00 p.m. and from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. for a total of nine newsy hours a day," Stewart notes. "Let me, for the audience here, help you out.

"The three hours you spend in the morning with Fox and Friends, not news," Stewart continues. "Your 4:00 to 5:00 post tea Neil Cavuto break, not news. The 5:00 and 6:00 emotional whirlwind and therapy session that is Glenn Beck, not even close to news. O'Reilly, Hannity and then van Social Security tern, not news.

"This is according to Fox News," Stewart adds. "Those people, the ones featured in promos about how fair and balanced Fox News is are not news. These people, otherwise known as the only people you ever think of when you think about Fox News, are not news. They are Fox opinutainment."

Stewart posits that Fox's opinion programs thus become a jumping off point for its newcasts.

"The Fox opinion guy's outrage becomes the 'some say' source for the news side," Stewart opines. "It's a perpetual re-revulsion machine."

"Do you think Fox News is biased?" he asks rhetorically. "Of course they are biased. Of course they are."

From here (with the full 11:31 segment): http://rawstory.com/2009/10/fox-perpetual-revulsion-maching/

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In case you missed it, I went into detail on http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6848728">this thread how the Busch junta *literally* went to war on a news channel, bombed two of their international offices and killed one of their reporters. Strange how none of the MSM are using that as a stark comparison seeing as all Obama's White House has done is verbally point out the truth about Faux news when Bushco have actually succeeded in silencing to this day (by force and other means) a real news network that wants to broadcast in the US.

[elleng]

1. This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions.

says utube!

[SemperEadem]

3. use the link that takes you to media matters

it's there.

[elleng]

4. Done.

Also get it on Hulu.

LOVE Jon Stewart!

edit: thought so funny 'this video is not available in your country!!!'

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

10. We get that all the time in Canada.

Any videos or other online content managed by Comedy Central comes to us through the Comedy Network.

[SemperEadem]

2. Brilliant.

Not only is fux 7 months late on the story, they feigned outrage over nothing.

They talk all shit because all they know is shit.

[suede1]

5. Saw it and it was great!

[ihavenobias]

6. # 6. n/t

[bjobotts]

7. FRame the story in your opinioin piece-then have news quote the opinion as fact=Nazism Beck

[bjobotts]

8. Sooner or later there will be retributioin on Fox propaganda and officials promoting it

[SkyIsGrey]

9. Propaganda comes in many forms.

n.t.

[IsItJustMe]

11. Only for the billionth time, Faux busted again and again and again....

Faux is worse than a joke, but he have to live with it, none-the-less.

[Tx4obama]

12. HuffPo has the 11 mins version too, here's a link in case the other links aren't working for ya...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/30/jon-stewart-takes-on-war_n_339788.html

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13. The rawstory link has the video clip

Definitely worth watching!