Ethics

Stewart v Cramer, Round 4

By Ed Brayton

Cramer actually went on the Daily Show and got beaten like a mangy dog by Jon Stewart. This keeps reminding me of my days as a stand up comic when people would heckle. Sometimes I would actually tell them, "Listen, you're not gonna win this. I have a microphone, you don't. And I'm funnier than you." Cramer should have taken that advice.

The thing is, as Andrew Sullivan notes, what Stewart did was journalism. He did what real journalists should be doing. And he made it funny too.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 15, 2009 (boomark / email).