Daily Show host blasts media for treating the “most mundane bulls**t” as “Earth-shattering”

Comedian Jon Stewart on Monday launched into a fiery rant aimed at the media coverage of former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in the latest episode of “The Daily Show.”

Stewart spent a portion of Monday’s segment lambasting media outlets for their coverage of Trump’s criminal trial unfolding in Manhattan, in which prosecutors have alleged that he falsified business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election.

“This trial will obviously be a test of the fairness of the American legal system, but it’s also a test of the media’s ability to cover Donald Trump in a responsible way. A task they have acknowledged they’ve performed poorly in the past,” Stewart said before showing a montage of clips from notable outlets like CNN and MSNBC acknowledging that they need to give less obsessive attention to the former president’s every antic.

  • reagansrottencorpse
    161·
    8 months ago

    They don’t give a fuck. That’s one of the many reasons young people have turned away from mainstream stream media. I suspect that’s why they want to take down TikTok as well. They can’t control the narrative there.

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
      5·
      8 months ago

      That’s one of the many reasons young people have turned away from mainstream stream media.

      It isn’t just young people, it’s basically anyone who understands that Media gets paid from views / clicks and that outrage is the single best generator of them. The horseshit is meters deep in coverage of everything political or politically related, not just Trump.

      It doesn’t matter whether you are watching Fox News, reading articles from Vox, or consuming CNN; every bit it of it is specifically crafted to get you outraged…because that’s how media gets paid.

      It’s a vortex of flaming shit.

      • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        I disagree about Vox, most of what I see from them is fairly straight reporting with an obvious left-leaning bias. But as far as I can tell, they don’t embellish facts and as far as clickbait goes, it’s way way better than most news outlets.

        This is their front page right now. Their headlines are refreshingly straightforward.