Santa and Jesus are white!

[RLENT]

You wanna know what's really hilarious ?

The Turkey Choker provides a source link for his quotes and then alters the link wording to "Pew Research has found" from what the site software would have parsed it as (which was the following) in order to obscure it:

"Pew Research surveys of audience habits suggest perilous future for news"

Uh-huh ...

 

[davekc]

You wanna know what's really hilarious ?

The Turkey Choker provides a source link for his quotes and then alters the link wording to "Pew Research has found" from what the site software would have parsed it as (which was the following) in order to obscure it:

"Pew Research surveys of audience habits suggest perilous future for news"

Uh-huh ...

Stop that. You are ruining my opinion.

 

[Pilgrim]

Stop that. You are ruining my opinion.

Dave - read the whole thing. Click on the source link and you'll find that I altered nothing - I copied and pasted the quote exactly as it was in their article offering the facts and research presented by Pew, which supports the point of the article. What's funny is the usual lame attempt by the resident troll at an ad hominem cheap shot which falls flat on its face.

 

[davekc]

The link did work. I probably would have just put the link and let whomever draw their own conclusion.

 

[RLENT]

Dave - read the whole thing. Click on the source link and you'll find that I altered nothing - I copied and pasted the quote exactly as it was in their article offering the facts and research presented by Pew, which supports the point of the article.

Links are titled with the title/name of the page the link goes to - it's the third option under "Miscellaneous" at the bottom of the posting screen:

"Automatically retrieve titles from external links"

What's funny is the usual lame attempt by the resident troll at an ad hominem cheap shot which falls flat on its face.

Really ?

And here I thought it was working pretty good (hence your squealing response to having someone point out what you actually did)

 

[Pilgrim]

Well shucks, I suspect you're taking a shot at people like me, maybe even me.

Not "taking a shot" - offering an opposing viewpoint.

Just so you know, The Daily Show is my primary source of humor and by that I'm referring to the way Jon Stewart totally owns Fox. I get almost all of my news from Google's news algorithm.

No problem there, if Stewart is your primary source of humor - it's the Comedy Channel. But if he's your primary source of NEWS you're fishing in the wrong pond. Stewart doesn't own Fox - he ridicules them, also others. Since most of his objects of ridicule don't respond in kind, he gets away with a lot of misrepresentations and statements taken out of context. You might have also noticed that the sources in my response were also taken from Google's algorithm, just a little farther down the list. You might want to consider some additional search engines and sources just for variety.

Pilgrim - tell me something please. I understand the psychology just a little but the details escape me. You invite these people from Fox into your living room and they feel like family. You do realize that they don't know you exist, don't you? They're not your friends. They're not your family. You represent a small percentage of a ratings point, nothing more.

This statement doesn't make any sense. You obviously don't understand the psychology at all, and the details definitely do escape you. Does Jon Stewart seem like family to you when you "invite" him into your living room?

 

[WanderngFool]

Not "taking a shot" - offering an opposing viewpoint.

No problem there, if Stewart is your primary source of humor - it's the Comedy Channel. But if he's your primary source of NEWS you're fishing in the wrong pond. Stewart doesn't own Fox - he ridicules them, also others. Since most of his objects of ridicule don't respond in kind, he gets away with a lot of misrepresentations and statements taken out of context. You might have also noticed that the sources in my response were also taken from Google's algorithm, just a little farther down the list. You might want to consider some additional search engines and sources just for variety.

This statement doesn't make any sense. You obviously don't understand the psychology at all, and the details definitely do escape you. Does Jon Stewart seem like family to you when you "invite" him into your living room?

If what Stewart does isn't owning Fox then I guess I don't know what owning means.

I invite Stewart into my living room and I wouldn't say I consider him like family, but he's certainly a welcome guest and like a good friend he makes me laugh.

 

[WanderngFool]

This is what is interesting.


Just doesn't look like a bunch of "old angry white men" based on that information.
As far as whether one knows them or not matters little. It only matters on how they deliver the news. Apparently they have that down whether they are right or not.

I think it shows what's happened to TV news. It's been on a downhill slide ever since a supermarket tabloid company declared themselves to be a "fair and balanced" "News" network while being anything but fair and balanced. CNN has become incompetent and MSNBC has, well, you know, they've, become, er, um, MSNBC. Are they still on the air?

Now that TV news can't be trusted to be news, people that want news look elsewhere.

 

[paullud]

If what Stewart does isn't owning Fox then I guess I don't know what owning means.

I invite Stewart into my living room and I wouldn't say I consider him like family, but he's certainly a welcome guest and like a good friend he makes me laugh.

No, sitting there spewing hatred, making up crap, and taking things out of context is not "owning" someone. Ironically he does exactly what he accuses those on the right of doing.

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[WanderngFool]

No, sitting there spewing hatred, making up crap, and taking things out of context is not "owning" someone. Ironically he does exactly what he accuses those on the right of doing.

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Making up crap? I'm sure The Daily Show has made mistakes in their long history, and I'm sure there are web sites devoted to documenting every one , but making up crap? How about some examples?

Incidentally, we now have a divided Republican party and Fox News has great ratings. They seem to have done well for themselves but that's all, just themselves.

 

[layoutshooter]

Never believe TV news, of any flavor, and NEVER, and I mean NEVER, believe EITHER of the two criminal organizations known as the Demoncrats and the Rumbumlicans. THEY ALL SUCK!

 

[asjssl]

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[paullud]

Making up crap? I'm sure The Daily Show has made mistakes in their long history, and I'm sure there are web sites devoted to documenting every one , but making up crap? How about some examples?

Incidentally, we now have a divided Republican party and Fox News has great ratings. They seem to have done well for themselves but that's all, just themselves.

Ummm, the entire show is pretty much twisting facts and making up "news". It isn't real.

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[witness23]

Ummm, the entire show is pretty much twisting facts and making up "news". It isn't real.

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Thankfully you quoted the "Wanderer", because I would've thought your comment was describing FoxNews.

 

[letzrockexpress]

Never believe TV news, of any flavor, and NEVER, and I mean NEVER, believe EITHER of the two criminal organizations known as the Demoncrats and the Rumbumlicans. THEY ALL SUCK!

Yup. Nothing worse than a liar...

 

[witness23]

Liar's do suck.

 

[paullud]

Thankfully you quoted the "Wanderer", because I would've thought your comment was describing FoxNews.

That was the point in my previous post, he complains about the people on the right doing it but his whole show is the same crap. Then you have people that are actually watching his show as though it is news or somehow informative.

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[WanderngFool]

That was the point in my previous post, he complains about the people on the right doing it but his whole show is the same crap. Then you have people that are actually watching his show as though it is news or somehow informative.

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One channel calls itself a news channel. The other calls itself a comedy channel. The significance of that doesn't mean anything to you?

 

[Pilgrim]

Ummm, the entire show is pretty much twisting facts and making up "news". It isn't real.
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The purpose of the show is humor via political satire and commentary. Stewart himself has said the show is NOT journalism. Several years ago Pew Research did a good analysis of the program from which these quotes were taken (emphasis mine):

The program also makes heavy use of news footage, often in a documentary way that employs archival video to show contrast and contradiction, even if the purpose is satirical rather than reportorial. At other times, the show also blends facts and fantasy in a way that no news program hopefully ever would. In addition, The Daily Show not only assumes, but even requires, previous and significant knowledge of the news on the part of viewers if they want to get the joke. And, in 2007 at least, the joke was more often on the Bush Administration and its fellow Republicans than on those from the liberal side of the aisle...

Stewart has always insisted that his show isn’t journalism and given its comedic core, its blurring of truth and fiction, and its ignoring of many major events, that is true in a traditional sense.
But it’s also true that, at times, The Daily Show aims at more than comedy...
it is a variation of the tradition of Russell Baker, Art Hoppe, Art Buchwald, H.L. Mencken and other satirists who once graced the pages of American newspapers.

Journalism, Satire or Just Laughs? "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," Examined | Pew Research Center's Journalism Project

There have been several threads on news channels before, and it's obvious there are some that don't know the difference between editorial shows as opposed to news shows. As stated above, The Daily Show isn't intended to be news show.

Thankfully you quoted the "Wanderer", because I would've thought your comment was describing FoxNews.

Here again, a shot at Fox News without any substantiation. Are we talking about their commentary and opinion shows, or the news like Special Report? Obviously it fashionable among liberals to slam Fox News because most of their programming has a conservative slant. But nary a word is said about the liberal bias of so many of the MSM shows, to say nothing of CNN or MSNBC. Once again, the bottom line is ratings and Fox is by far the leader of the cable networks.

 

[witness23]

That was the point in my previous post, he complains about the people on the right doing it but his whole show is the same crap. Then you have people that are actually watching his show as though it is news or somehow informative.

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