Christiane Amanpour - Journalism in the Fight Against Authoritarianism | The Daily Show

The Saudi leader who melted a Washington Post journalist in a drum of acid met with this president in our White House today.

it's absolutly astonishing that we now get real news on comedy shows and Jokes on network news! Thanks Jon; Keep strong! Bless you

15:21 I think the issue Jon is trying to get at (and she doesn’t want to be dragged into it), is the fact the corporate media is about views, not facts/hard hitting reporting.

Why would these networks pay investigative journalists to investigate themselves?? Isn't it WHY they are buying them all?? Own the media, own the narrative.

Why if the journalist are getting the information… why aren’t the networks reporting it…$?

I dunno, seems to me that a corporate media world that is largely incentivized to chase profits and not truth is wholly unfit to investigate the interests counter to those profit incentives. Look at the coverage of Israel, look at Gaza, look at the way they breathlessly tried to scare-monger over Zohran winning. Look at the way they seemed to stop caring about climate change even though it still is the greatest threat to humanity.

I find that interesting; more information but less understanding. It’s true that often a tactic to confuse someone is too bombard you with mountains of information.

I would argue that Americans are also fighting influencer types of alleged “news” just as much.

A bit foolish to count on American exceptionalism. Totalitarianism can happen anywhere.

The news available to the masses is bought. I’m floored by the number of people who belong to the middle and lower income classes that believe that the upper class is going to protect and save us when every single point of history shows the undeniable opposite.