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Why comics run circles around the media

Mar 10th, 2009 | By Jason | Category: Blogs, Opinions

Jason McGill Assistant Editor Will Bunch at the Huffington Post has written a piece praising Jon Stewart for his incisive skewering of the talking heads at CNBC for their myopic, fascile reporting and fawning interviews while the economy was starting to tank.  It’s easy to feel good about the muckracking at the Daily Show, especially [...]



Free writing (and hello!)

Mar 7th, 2009 | By Jason | Category: Blogs, Opinions

Jason McGill Assistant Editor As this is my first blog here, I will quickly say hello and thanks for reading. On other blogs I’ve written, I’ve started by apologizing for mistakes I’m bound to make, overgeneralizing important issues, becoming melodramatic, resigning myself to coming eschaton and in the same post cheering with wild-eyed faith in [...]