Jon Stewart Slams CNN’s Coverage Of Whitney Houston’s Death
Posted on Feb 14, 2012 @ 04:30PM
By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter
Jon Stewart is not known for holding his tongue about topics he feels passionately about, and the target of his wrath this week is news giant CNN and the bizarre way they handled Whitney Houston’s death.
On Monday’s episode of The Daily Show, Stewart said he wasn’t going to dwell on the tragedy of the singer’s passing on Saturday because his show could not cover it with the “right authority, class and grace,” before adding, "But you know what's interesting? Neither could CNN.”
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The political satirist went on to reveal how CNN reporters had gone up to people on the street to notify them of Houston’s death, and then filmed their shocked reactions.
“You can't just wander the streets with a camera crew surprising people who don't know someone famous has died!” he exclaimed.
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"I thought the whole point of broadcasting your signal is that you don't have to go with the news door-to-door, town crier style," marveled Stewart, before comparing CNN's approach to the way "they pass out nail salon coupons" in Times Square and Candid Camera.
"That's not right," he said.
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As RadarOnline.com previously reported, CNN is not the only one who has been singled out by Stewart.
Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane revealed to Piers Morgan last year that Jon placed "an angry call" to him over a joke on his animated show, that knocked Stewart for working through the 2008 writer's strike.
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CNN and HLN are pathetic talking this up 24/7 I can't believe we will have to endure this overkill through Saturday, when she is buried, Then there will be two days of going back over their week-longg
coverage.
Posted Wed, 02/15/2012 - 4:34am
thats right, fox took on all those racist rants about whitney, but death comes to all and its meted out fairly, so all those hateful people who said bad things about whitney and include color will pay the piper one day.
Posted Tue, 02/14/2012 - 10:17pm
He is right. That kind of 'reporting' is boring and mindless. Fox News was reading Tweets from random viewers. I don't care what John Smith from the trailer park thinks about it. I tuned in because I wanted news. I tuned out rather quickly . . . .
Posted Tue, 02/14/2012 - 9:35pm
Absolutely love jon Stewart! And CNN is a joke for over-reporting things like this & Nancy Grace is the worst, she not only mis-reports news she flat-out lies.
Posted Tue, 02/14/2012 - 9:26pm
I love John Stewart. He has a great way of getting to the point! =)
Posted Tue, 02/14/2012 - 9:11pm
I can only take this dudes show for 5 minutes a month.
Posted Tue, 02/14/2012 - 8:43pm