Last Straw

I enjoy watch­ing Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show but some­times the con­fines of his lib­eral naiv­ety drives me nuts.

Ian Sin­clair on the prob­lem with Jon Stew­art:

Stew­art is surely right to state the main­stream news media in the US is “hurt­ing Amer­ica”, as he did dur­ing a heated exchange on CNN’s now-defunct Cross­fire in 2004. How­ever, as a pro­gramme that is adversarial but always within very strict ideo­lo­gical bound­ar­ies, surely it is also true The Daily Show has its own role to play in what US dis­sid­ent Noam Chom­sky calls ‘the man­u­fac­ture of con­sent’: “Thus far and no further”.