But we live now in hard times, not end times … The country’s 24-hour politico pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our
problems, but its existence makes solving them that much harder … If we amplify everything, we hear nothing … The press is our immune system; if it overreacts to everything, we actually get sicker and perhaps eczema.
— Jon Stewart, host of the Daily Show, in his closing address at the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear,” taking aim at the media.
Connect:
