The great apologist

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You can always count on Richard Cohen to come to the defense of the media when they’ve failed at their jobs. Consider his hit against Jon Stewart and the Daily Show’s takedown of Jim Cramer. Stewart’s smackdown made for good television and, despite Cohen’s attempts to let the financial press off the hook, contained a level of uncomfortable truth.

The problem with Cohen’s interpretation of the Stewart-Cramer match is that he attempts to boil it down to the standard what-did-they-know-and-when-did-they-know-it meme, ignoring that Stewart was attacking the press corps for its more general obsequious behavior.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet