OT; way OT
... and late night comedy for news.
[well, you ignored my OT warning, so here goes ...]
I call this the Jon Stewart effect: all mainstream media are so biased -
either way - to cater to their chosen audience, that the only sane response is to detect and compensate for the bias to the point that the actual source of the news becomes irrelevant. So now The Daily Show is far more pleasant and far less insulting.
This happened because all shows have essentially the same business model: deliver (pimp) eyes to the next commercial, as measured by Nielsen ratings, which ratings in turn set the price of commercial time; they could not care less what content is actually on between the commercials as long
as that content serves that business model. Each show cares not a whit for the loss of the population who are so offended they will not watch, because the show can so reliably deliver (pimp) their targeted eyeballs to the Nielsens. Even NPR's business model is only slightly different: they pimp ears to the next pledge drive.
Each show is no better than a PID without anti-windup on their reset action.
The irony is that Jon Stewart originally set out (I think) to mock the mainstream sources of news, and ended up becoming a source himself.
Listen to the final speech of the movie "Good Night and Good Luck," and watch the movie "Network;" Edward R. Murrow and Paddy Chayefsky were frighteningly prescient.
