I repeat: send in the comedians

In the distressing vacuum of responsible journalism that fills the airwaves, even the best of them come up short.

And who better to point this out and shame them for their lack of honest reporting? Yes, Jon Stewart.

He recently skewered CNN (perhaps the best of them except for NPR/PBS) for making a big deal out of fact-checking a Saturday Night Live skit that poked fun at Obama for not accomplishing anything. CNN said, in fact, that he had done a few things.

Jon Stewart ridiculed CNN for going to the effort to correct a comedy spoof show, while not applying the same fact-checking to their own guests. As reported on HuffPost:

He went on to show several instances of CNN guests saying spurious things and introducing made-up statistics without being asked where their numbers came from or countered with facts.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/13/daily-show-destroys-cnn-f_n_318295.html

Way to go, Jon. It's not the first time you've stepped in and done the serious questioning that the supposedly serious journalists fail to do.

Ralph