2009-10-12 CNN Leaves It There
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- date: 2009/10/12 (2009/10/12)
- author: Jon Stewart
- source: The Daily Show
- topics: video mainstream media CNN fallacy of moderation
- URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20120810053122/http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-october-12-2009/cnn-leaves-it-there
- title: CNN Leaves It There
- summary: Stewart highlights CNN's tendency to juxtapose a reasonable viewpoint with an unreasonable one and then "leave it there", leaving the viewer with the impression that both viewpoints are equally valid. He also points out their tendency to do "fact-checking" only when it doesn't really matter, i.e. in this case "fact-checking" a Saturday Night Live sketch satirizing Barack Obama.