Wallace was hellbent on defending Fox News Channel’s journalistic integrity to the Comedy Central satirist—primarily by showing numerous examples of reporter bias on other channels.
Fox serves as a counter-balance to all other television news outfits, Wallace reasoned...networks who tend to lean left.
Stewart shrugged this off. His program is biased only against phony politicians, general cynicism, and journalistic sensationalism.
Stewart insisted that “The Daily Show” is meant to serve as a counter-balance to the over-saturated, twenty-four hour cable news cycle that fills its gaps with sensational stories of radical right versus wacky left politics, extreme weather, and true-crime.
Both men made credible points...though I found Stewart’s ideas more compelling. The news media’s editorial bias is tired and true, while exposing its desperate need to sensationalize is provocative.
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