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Jon Stewart Explains How Fox News Misinforms Through Editorial Bias
On The Daily Show, Jon Stewart explained how Fox News uses editorial bias to misinform, and Fox News responded today by calling Stewart a propagandist and a bully.
Here is the video from The Daily Show:
Stewart said, “I make fun of conservatives or Republicans because I am a liberal, partisan, ideologue. I make fun of liberals or Democrats because I want as part of my brilliant yet, cynical strategy, to maintain enough credibility to continue making fun of conservatives and Republicans, and that narrative of conservative victimization is the true genius of what Fox News has accomplished. Any editorial judgment in news, or schools or movies that doesn’t favor the conservative view is evidence of liberal bias. Whereas any editorial judgment that favors the conservative view is evidence merely of fairness and is done to protect them from liberal bias, and if you criticize for Fox for this game, guess what that is evidence of? How right they are about how persecuted. It is air tighter than an otter’s anus.”
Stewart wrapped up the segment by saying that Chris Wallace once used a term to describe the Obama administration, and played a clip of Wallace calling the administration crybabies.
Fox News responded on Fox and Friends today:
Fox News had on Steven Crowder who claimed that Stewart is a man who, “looks to propagandize information, regardless of it being false in order to continue the narrative that he set with his audience regarding conservative, and by the way, he’s a bully. He only picks fights that he knows he can win, with Chris Wallace or with you guys, and not that you are too weak to defend yourselves, but the second you fire a shot back over the bow, well guess what, he’s a comedian now. Puts on his comedian hat, and makes a wiener joke. It’s a moving target you can’t hit. You can’t win the fight, and that’s the only reason engages.”
Fox News then played Stewart’s Herman Cain joke as their evidence of his bias. Ok, Fox News. I’ll see your Herman Cain joke and raise you 24 hours of daily programming, 365 days a year. Fox News is always trying to tilt the discussion away from their own bias, by claimed that a biased comedian on a comedy network is the real problem.
The problem isn’t the cable news network that tries to hide their bias by pretending to be, “fair and balanced.” Nope, the problem is not the biased network that misinforms millions of people every single day. The real problem is the guy with the comedy show who jokes about the obvious bias and misinformation of the pretend fairly and balanced news network.
Fox News feels so threatened by Jon Stewart that they are out to discredit him. Their fear is justified. Stewart is teaching his audience how to see through media misinformation, which is a direct threat to Fox. The Stewart/Fox News relationship had been mutually beneficial. Jon Stewart’s appearances on Fox News bring younger viewers to the channel who would never normally watch the network, and Stewart got to be a hero with his audience by standing up to Fox in their own backyard.
Since the Wallace interview, the relationship has taken a different tone. Fox News tried to play gotcha with Stewart, and he responded by increasing his attacks on FNC’s bias and misinformation. Fox News should feel threatened by Jon Stewart. They have the oldest audience in all of television. He has one of the youngest.
Fox News needs those young viewers for their long term survival, but they realize that as long as he is out there every night exposing their misinformation, that is never going to happen. The result is this nasty campaign to reveal Stewart’s “secret liberal agenda.”
Steven Crowder did make one accurate point.
This thing with Jon Stewart is a battle that Fox News can never win.
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13 Responses to Jon Stewart Explains How Fox News Misinforms Through Editorial Bias
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Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Jun. 28th, 2011 at 10:21 am
Go Jon! Love to hear the FOX pundits accuse Stewart of what they themselves are guilty of – propagandizing information. Wallace is a disgrace. In a different society he would do the right thing and free us from having to listen to his unethical and dishonest diatribes.
The Platzner Post
Jun. 28th, 2011 at 10:35 am
Jon sets Fox straight!!!
Shiva (Moderator)
Jun. 28th, 2011 at 10:47 am
Kilmeade and Doocey. What can be said after those two? Its like 2 boys in a sandbox eating dirt and talking about their potty habits
shel3364
Jun. 28th, 2011 at 11:21 am
The more they attempt to discredit him, the more powerful he becomes.
Thank God they’re too stupid to see that.
Shasta
Jun. 28th, 2011 at 11:48 am
Hopefully, you have seen this hilarious and disturbing post from Buzzfeed. All I can do is just shake my head. This has to violate journalistic ethics. Nice to see someone took the time to show the dishonesty of the Fox network. I am convinced that if this was shown to the Fox viewers they would adamantly assert that the actual headlines were misleading or fake.
ACTUAL NEWS HEADLINES vs FOX NEWS HEADLINES
www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/a...
Shiva (Moderator)
Jun. 28th, 2011 at 11:57 am
Excellent link TY
Peter Hockley
Jun. 28th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
I think my head just exploded following Steven Crowder’s argument.
Boscoe
Jun. 28th, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Back in 2008 I was constantly pointing out to friends how Fox gave equal time to both candidates: for every minute spent building up McCain, they also spent a minute bashing Obama. Often at the same time!
See? Totally fair and balanced! LOL
And as usual, Jon nailed it. Wallace had a week to come up with examples to back his side, and what did he come up with? Did he debunk any of the 21 Politifact examples? Of course not.
Wallace is a smirking corporate tool. And I honestly think that drives a lot of the anti-Stewart animosity with the Faux-heads. Stewart gets to say what he thinks, while their jobs hang on their ability to toe the line and defend the narrative. That’s gotta rankle…
Susie
Jun. 28th, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Stewart has a following with more that just the young people. I’m a senior citizen and try not to ever miss his show. Thank God someone is willing to stand up to Fox News. The rest of the “liberal” media is afraid to take them on.
majii
Jun. 28th, 2011 at 7:53 pm
“Fox News had on Steven Crowder who claimed that Stewart is a man who, “looks to propagandize information, regardless of it being false in order to continue the narrative that he set with his audience regarding conservative, and by the way, he’s a bully.”
An excellent description of the way Fox News does business! Owww, the hypocrisy hurts!!!
Stephen in Portland
Jun. 29th, 2011 at 12:37 am
I wonder how Roger “The Whale” Ailes blood pressure is after he watches Jon hand his boys their ass EVERY SINGLE TIME they lock horns. His doctor may not let him watch. Too dangerous.
John
Jun. 29th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
Crowder isn’t a “comedian”. He tries using “comedy” to create partisan narratives to achieve political success. It’s not funny, much in the way Denis Miller isn’t. But Stewart is a real comedian. Where ever the joke is, political sides be damned, he’s there. MASSIVE difference. One’s partisan ignorance forcing a view devoid of reality, the other isn’t. But the partisan person must now CALL the non-partisan person “biased” because otherwise the partisan person looks that much bigger a douche. Oh, note FOX didn’t show the clip of Cain actually stating his 3 page insane claim. You know, cause they would crush their irrational lying narrative. Honestly, F#CK FOX!