{"id":1569,"date":"2004-10-18T17:14:49","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T21:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/10\/18\/why-your-news-sucks\/"},"modified":"2004-10-18T17:14:49","modified_gmt":"2004-10-18T21:14:49","slug":"why-your-news-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/10\/18\/why-your-news-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your news sucks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a606'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0410\/15\/cf.01.html\">Jon Stewart takes on Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> STEWART: You know, the interesting thing I have is, you have a<br \/>\nresponsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably. <\/p>\n<p>     CARLSON:  You need to get a job at a journalism school, I think. <\/p>\n<p>     STEWART:  You need to go to one.  <\/p>\n<p>     The thing that I want to say is, when you have people on for just knee-jerk, reactionary talk&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>     CARLSON:  Wait.  I thought you were going to be funny.  Come on. Be funny.  <\/p>\n<p>     STEWART:  No.  No.  I&#8217;m not going to be your monkey.  <\/p>\n<p>     (LAUGHTER) <\/p>\n<p>     BEGALA:  Go ahead.  Go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>     STEWART:  I watch your show every day.  And it kills me.  <\/p>\n<p>     CARLSON:  I can tell you love it.  <\/p>\n<p>     STEWART:  It&#8217;s so &#8212; oh, it&#8217;s so painful to watch.<\/p>\n<p>     (LAUGHTER) <\/p>\n<p>STEWART: You know, because we need what you do. This is such a great<br \/>\nopportunity you have here to actually get politicians off of their<br \/>\nmarketing and strategy.<\/p>\n<p>     CARLSON:  Is this really Jon Stewart?  What is this, anyway?<\/p>\n<p>     STEWART:  Yes, it&#8217;s someone who watches your show and cannot take it anymore.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stewart takes on Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala: STEWART: You know, the interesting thing I have is, you have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably. CARLSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school, I think. STEWART: You need to go to one. The thing that I want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-pj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}