Friday, November 13, 2009

Daily Show Polices the Media

Jarrod N. sent me this video from the Daily Show depicting how one news station used footage of a different event when describing crowds at last week's "tea party" protests at the U.S. Capitol. The NYTimes has a good article describing what took place. The Times writes "'The Daily Show,' ... has become one of the media’s prime monitors when it comes to calling out misuse or manipulation of video..."

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