{"id":1718,"date":"2009-11-19T16:12:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T21:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/11\/19\/stewart-is-indispensible\/"},"modified":"2009-11-19T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T21:12:32","slug":"stewart-is-indispensible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/11\/19\/stewart-is-indispensible\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart is Indispensible"},"content":{"rendered":"

The main man of mainstream media, Brian Williams, claims that Jon Stewart has changed MSM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The old arc of a news story went like this: News happens. Media cover news. Audience reacts, then turns in for the night. For the past several years, however, there\u2019s been another step added to the end of the process: being held to account for our faults by a comedy show with a sharp eye and a sharp tongue. How did we live without it?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

His latest \u2013 an interview with Lou Dobbs \u2013 was wonderful, especially if you watch the entire interview, only a portion of which appeared on TV.  Stewart is not only funny.  He is smart and articulate.  Dobbs can\u2019t keep up.  I doubt few media mavens could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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The main man of mainstream media, Brian Williams, claims that Jon Stewart has changed MSM. The old arc of a news story went like this: News happens. Media cover news. Audience reacts, then turns in for the night. For the past several years, however, there\u2019s been another step added to the end of the process:… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}