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My personal favorite news show is the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and even though it is "fake news" I truly believe that it has more relevance on our current media, and political environment than most present news shows on TV today. The example above is my evidence for this argument, specifically the part where CNN has you text in the story that you would like to see. As Stewart explained, all three news stories are interesting, and significant to the world. Afghani women losing protective shelters, one of the worlds largest arms trade shows in the Middle East, and Iraq-Afghanistan female veterans finding themselves homeless, sometimes with kids, the public should have the right to be informed on such pressing issues. However CNNs programmers seem to think showing clips from youtube is more entertaining, and their right, it is much more fun to watch a cat putting on a bunny rabbit mask. This is what's so great about the Daily Show, Jon Stewart has a free and open platform to rip on whatever he and his writers woefully please just for a laugh, but in a sense not just for a laugh, to show what is the morally correct thing to do.
The idea that teachers, the people who are directly involved and in charge of out children's education, apparently are the ones bankrupting out economy, while Wall Street CEO's require millions of dollars in bonuses from the same pool of money that taxpayers used to bail out the banks that were corrupted by these same CEO's! Stewart is able to point out the hypocrisy not just in politics but the 24/hr media whom covers it. We must do all we can to see through the BS, cut the crap, and get straight to what is right and decent. The Daily Show does just that with a wink and a smile.
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