Fake News Wins Real Award

Comedy Central is playing up the fact that the Daily Show recently won a Peabody Award for its election coverage last year. In brief: the Peabody Awards were created in 1940 and are given by the University of Georgia, much like the Pulitzer is given out by Columbia University. In fact, the Peabody was created to be a "Pulitzer for radio." Today, it is considered the "most prestigious award in electronic media."

And now, Jon Stewart owns one. Actually, two. He also won for the 2000 election (so that's two more than that lying dicksucker, Bill O'Reilly). But I am unsure if this is a good thing.

I am a fan of his show, and I think he did yeoman's work last year when he offered the lone voice opposed to the drivel being willfully shoveled into the public ear by the regular, gutless media. But, I am not so sure that an alternative to the nightly news ought to replace the nightly news, if you see what I'm saying. TDS's visibility and now apparent viability offers no challenge to the Fucker Carlsons and Cokie Roberts' of the world. Now they can just shrug and say, "hey, if you want straight news, go watch the Daily Show," knowing full well that most people 1. don't have cable and 2. really do expect more from their regular news outlets.