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Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 3/6/2009 11:09:23 AM
Title: Cheap arguments
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From SETH KAPLAN: Regarding Jon Stewart's attack on Rick Santelli and CNBC, consider Jon's attack in reverse: Rick Santelli argues that homeowners should not be bailed out. Jon Stewart rebuts that CNBC was completely wrong about the state of economy with a series of damning clips.

What does one have to do with the other? Jon doesn't really say. Couldn't Jon's argument be used to refute nearly anything Santelli has said or ever said? Did Santelli cheer for the other bailouts? The piece doesn't say. In fact, the piece doesn't include any clips of Santelli at all. I find Santelli's arguments to be cheap and Stewart's more of the same.

It seems that the same mainstream media that dutifully reported whatever big business had to say about the economy... has now dutifully reported whatever Jon Stewart had to say about CNBC. [Permalink]

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