Watch the Comedians: The Daily Show (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog):
The Daily Show’s staff consists mostly of comedians, not journalists. Yet they were able to give this story the coverage that, as far as I can tell, only one other news source (UPI) did. This is no one-time occurance. The Daily Show is routinely the most on-top-of-things source for news, while also being extremely entertaining. The show is far more fair and accurate than most major media and they do in-depth political analysis of the Bush administration that New York Times readers can only dream of.
The show is good, to be sure, but perhaps the more interesting question is: Why are all the other mainstream news source so unspeakably bad?
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