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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

To Jon and Rick. Subtitle: Of Jews and Christians in the press.




Daily Show: Rick Sanchez's Tsunami Anger
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It is simply unbeknown to me, what possibly could have gone through the Jon Stewart Daily Show's screenplayers' minds, when with incongruent ad hominem attacks they have capriciously tried to make fun of Rick Sanchez's journalistic qualifications for the last months with no apparent nearly end. I guess they got what they so wholeheartedly wanted. Sanchez is out.

First of all, it is important to remember that any journalist needs to engage an audience in. An audience that, sadly to admit, may not be the brightest of the pack. This in itself, presents all sort of problems. Problems that should be addressed and laid out in laymen terms. And this is exactly what any journalist, regardless of the topic in question should first and foremost, put in easy terms. Doing it that way, it allows the recipient to spread out a message, whatever that may be, whether it is related to a local or international event, ecological, political or anything else - in chewed out, itemized details, for a diverse, multifaceted audience, so it successfully results in getting the points across, notwithstanding the academic levels or grades of the targeted public to which the message is delivered.

So, bearing that in mind, how is it possible that God's great chosen team behind Jon Stewart crew, further traversed, defamed, and have manipulated and altered to great extents, many of the broadcast transmissions presented by Sanchez in the last months, while performing logical fallacies that have led to an interminable end of mock and ridicule? Have they actually improved the show's particular viewing ratings? If so, it says a lot about the land of honey and milk.
Cutting the whole segment with clips, instead of the entire recording is perhaps the only lifesaver for this show and many others (e.g. Letterman's being one of them) to resurrect -no pun intended - comedic stand-offs, which are as recessed as the economy itself. I guess it doesn't matter how the viewers unknowingly get a laugh at themselves, while erroneously thinking they are laughing at someone else.

There was another segment related to the Tsunami event, which was - and this was to be expected - sloppily chopped down as well, when Sanchez asked the guy - who was brought up to the broadcasting of this rare occurrence, so he could offer a better explanation - a simple question. And that was: what the two meters in English meant.

Perhaps the bright Stewart and company thought it would be another moment to smash open Rick and expose him once again. I'll let another website answer what the two meters in English meant:
    The cost to the US for not being on the metric system is no doubt high. Just last year, a Martian probe was destroyed because    some of its navigational data was in feet, and some was in meters. All exported goods have to be labeled in metrics or they do not  sell. We are slowly getting our act together. Almost all packaged goods have both the standard and metric measures on their label. The can of Root Beer I am drinking is labeled 12 FL OZ (355 mL).

But the reasonings from these people are just but sophistically remarks that come back to hunt them with a clever reminder that they are just buffoons in this time and age. By the way, 355 mL of Root Beer, in English, what are they?


Sources:

America's Aversion to the Metric System

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