(2004-07-15) Stewart Blitzer Journalism

If you want to see the lameness of Journalism, watch last night's episode of Jon Stewart, where Wolf Blitzer was on. (Being shown again tonight at 7pm EDT.) (Very crude paraphrase - this show needs transcripts!) JS: So, this whole War On Iraq thing was based on pretty bad "intelligence". Shouldn't you media guys have caught on? WB: Well, I went over there, and listened to all these briefings, and everyone said they were really sure there were WMD-s. JS: So, uh, are guys over there at CNN just kicking themselves over this? What's going to change? WB: Well, you try to learn and change. JS: (chortles with disbelief, eyes rolling back into head...)