Brian Williams: Daily Show is "vitamin supplement," not "main meal"

[BurtWorm]

But, Brian, why is the supplement so much vastly more nutritious AND delicious than the calorically empty cardboard you serve?

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=113234


Williams: Don't get election news from fake anchor Stewart
Philadelphia Inquirer
Jon Stewart is "the vitamin supplement" while network news is "the main meal," says Brian Williams. The NBC anchor tells Gail Shister: "I regard him as a freestanding branch of government in this country. I love the show. But the day it becomes the primary source of news for people, then the diet is out of whack."
> The stakes are high for network anchors on election night (WSJ)
Posted at 8:54:17 AM

[ck4829]

1. In other words

The only way to get the whole story is to plug in with your corporate news talking heads. Gotcha.

[Burma Jones]

2. I think Jon would agree

except for the part about any teevee news being a "main meal"

[BurtWorm]

7. The main meal should come from the news forager him/herself.

TV news is more like the crap you sneak out of the fridge when you're not even hungry, just bored.

[Lindacooks]

3. Says the Cheeto.

[ClusterFreak]

4. Puffed up blowhard that he may be...

...I kind of think Stewart would agree with him.

Jon suggested as much when he debated Tucker on Crossfire a couple years ago.

[Ian David]

10. Jon Stewart is the master of self-deprication

"I follow a show where puppets make prank phone-calls."

The Daily Show isn't a vitamin.

It's more like a deep-colon cleansing of laughter to purge our bodies of the mass-media toxins.

[ClusterFreak]

12. Very well said! n/t

[hatrack]

5. Don't you mean the "Happy Meal", Brian?

Asshole.

[C_U_L8R]

6. it's the coup de grace

the icing on the cake

the cherry on top

oh i'm getting hungry

[Cha]

8. Boy does he have that bass ackwards.

The Daily Show is the Whole Menu(appetizer,soup&salad, entree, dessert) and Vitamin B-12 shots for the Kicker! And a shot of Wheatgrass! :9

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Please pass the vitamin supplement. I'll skip the main meal, thank you.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

11. I dine very nicely at Countdown

And stop by Daily Show for a little cheese and fruit.

Finish up with a brandy at Colbert Report.

And between meals I snack at Talking Points Memo, or buzz on java from DU.

That network stuff? Shit, I'd rather eat at Applebee's.

[Lisa]

13. and you're welcome to stop by for some exotic (non-US) cuisine ...

... at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (or the BBC, too).


http://www.cbc.ca/

[Roland99]

14. First words out of Lauer's mouth today on The Today Show?????

"Good morning. Kerry...."



:eyes:




Fuck off, Brian.

[AlCzervik]

15. i you don't watch the news you wouldn't "Get" TDS, the jokes would mean

nothing to you so Brian, shut up and don't try an insult our intelligence.

[peekaloo]

16. Yes, Brian, the pink flamingo segment your network carried last night

was so needed and informative and just down-right filling.

Go back to standing on a wedding cake, asshole.

[Rosemary2205]

17. Weeeelllllllll

I don't know about anyone else but I'll take fresh cake over moldy rotten veggies any day.