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the last real journalist

Saturday 14th March 2009

Just a short one as I'm a bit under the weather and the schedule for the next few days is kind of heavy-going. The closest thing I have to a night "off" in the next week and a half is Wednesday, and since that's when I'm generally up till the occasionally not even particularly wee small hours writing Now Show songs I'm not sure that counts.

I've just been watching Jon Stewart's showdown with Jim Cramer (click here for the background on this - it's worth it)...  it's possibly the single most exciting and impressive thing I've seen on TV in years. Fair play to Cramer for taking it like a man but Stewart had him so utterly nailed there wasn't much else he could do other than leap over the desk and strangle him. 

The fact that it's taken Jon Stewart - a man who doesn't even consider himself to BE a journalist - to point out the effective complicity of US financial punditry in the wholesale robbery and squandering of billions of innocent people's dollars, and the rancid hypocrisy of these same pundits now decrying the "profligacy" of Obama's stimulus proposals, or, worse, blaming small investors and mortgage holders for their own misfortune when it was the advice they themselves had been giving for years which led those investors into trouble, should give the rest of the US news business some serious thinking to do. 

It should also give those who clamour for our own news media to go down similar paths (I'm looking at you, the Abolish-The-Licence-Fee crowd) some VERY serious thinking to do.

Why is it that a man who describes himself as a comedian fronting a comedy show is looking a lot like The Last Real Journalist In America?

Lap it up (there's some fruity language, but rightly f__kin' so):

 
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