Oh, the humanity

[andrewducker]

Having just watched this 9 minute clip of The Daily Show, concerning bloggers bringing down hypocritical members of the US press, two things spring to mind:

1) Why the hell isn't there a political show as good as that over here in the UK?
2) We really are very nearly in The Transparent Society - we now have cameras pretty much everywhere, phone cameras/digital cameras everywhere else, and tiny, constantly recording cameras are just on the edge of possibility. It won't be long before you won't be able to say or do anything without it being possibly public knowledge. Fortunately, neither will 'they'.

Comments

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

1) Broadcasting House used to be good, until the presenter went off to do PM. So now I'm left with the last 15 minutes of The Westminster Hour...

2) Hence one of my other blogs...

Re: political shows

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

So, I might not be completely conversant on the political scene in the UK but between what I know of UK politics, I'd take UK politics over US politics with the Daily Show. :)

[kimberly-a.livejournal.com]

Shannon and I have become entirely addicted to The Daily Show lately, after Jon Stewart went on a show called Crossfire and just obliterated the flabbergasted hosts for the bias in their reporting. ("I thought you were supposed to be funny," whined one host.)

In the bit you mention (I haven't listened to the clip, but I assume it's the segment of the show I remember), my favorite bit was the little diagram of flow of information through various different blogs, leading up to an article in The Washington Post, and Jon Stewart's line, "The Washington Post. You heard it here ... twelfth." Heh.

But I've got to agree with wolfieboy, because Jon Stewart is only so wonderful because our politics are so badly in need of mockery. I think I mentioned Jon Stewart in my journal recently, because I usually try to avoid the news, because it just makes me want to cry or scream or rend my garments ... but Jon Stewart manages to give actual information while metaphorically shaking his head in disbelief at the idiocy of it all. If American politics weren't so idiotic in the first place, we wouldn't need Jon Stewart.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

1) Why the hell isn't there a political show as good as that over here in the UK?

The Daily show is truly wonderful, but I don't think it would work nearly as well if US politics were not a sick and terrible joke. I think that it's an excellent sign that you have no such show in Britain.

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

Hypocritical?

A bunch of fucking stalinists hounded a guy from CNN for an off the record comment at Davos.

Fuck them. And fuck their stupid little jesus.

[andrewducker]

There's no such thing as 'off the record' any more.

Either you said something, or you didn't.

Either you stand by it, or you don't.

Either it's something you were right to say, you apologise, or you leave.

If someone said something at Davos they shouldn't have then they should either have apologised or quit.