tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post7994264156260711079..comments2024-02-25T16:56:47.627-05:00Comments on Magdalene's Egg: Fides Quae CrediturFather Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-15250348119830721142013-02-08T01:58:12.952-05:002013-02-08T01:58:12.952-05:00Yes but you're forgetting that for at least th...Yes but you're forgetting that for at least the past ten years, The Daily Show and its spinoff the Colbert Report have been widely perceived as being the only noticable voices consistently "calling BS" (as the kids might say) on the political discourse. On all the others you mention (and, sadly, sweet NPR) there's far too much "Democrats say, this, Republicans say, this, a "pundit" we dug up says, this, a paid "think tank" flunky says, this, (maybe every once in a great while someone like an economic Nobel laureate says, this)... in the end, who's to say who's right? Indeed... certainly not us. Gravitas, America, unity, Beltway cocktail party." TDS/Colbert are pretty much the ONLY media outlets (besides the openly partisan Fox News and the couple of openly partisan shows on MSNBC) who do anything OTHER than that... and they're also the only highly visible place you can go (TDS in particular) to find anybody clearly consistently calling the other guys out on that. The networks and couple of remaining papers and dear old NPR can "fact check" all day long, but for real, pull-few-punches media criticism... where on your television dial can you go but Jon Stewart and friends on Comedy Central? Just Sayinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04879821498901543566noreply@blogger.com