Jon Stewart Takes On CNN

One of the intentions of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is to understand how the media covers the news. More often than not, Steward finds the media incompetent. Stewart argues the media focuses on unnecessary and inconsequential aspects of the story. Stewart points out that news anchors tend to exaggerate and inflate the truth and scope of the story. Most times Stewart takes on Fox for using newsworthy events as an avenue to push conservative agendas, but more recently Stewart has torn apart CNN as a network devoid of substantial commentary on news.

Last year after the Malaysian airline flight went missing, CNN spent day after day discussing in meticulous detail the intricacies of the situation, as well as any possible solutions. They covered everything from the size of the plane to the possibility of black holes being the cause of the missing flight. Jon Stewart, in response, began to poke holes in the reporting of CNN. After playing a clip of a CNN reporter talking about the size of the plane, Stewart asked incredulously if the reporter had just described an airplane to a viewing public located at an airport. Stewart uses the incredulity of talking about black holes as a relation to newsworthy topics as a way to inform his audience of good reporting.  

Stewart picks at CNN for blowing reporting into an opportunity to expound, and, in doing so, insulting and stupefying media that perpetuates insubstantial reporting devoid of factual observation. Stewart comments on the inferences and inferences CNN seems to be discussing only to fill the "23 hours and 59 minutes" of airtime they dedicate to news. 

Stewart also retaliates against Fox news for reporting about how CNN is only using Malaysian airlines as a way to boost their ratings. Stewart uses this as a way to convey that news reporting is only about the ratings. 

Jon Stewart uses his show as a medium to exploit the media for what it is- a money hungry conjecture abusing way to discuss important subjects in an insubstantial way.