Journalism Quotes by Jon Stewart

Wow, the entire network of anchors has been hired to be the press secretary.

— Jon Stewart

If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.

— Jon Stewart

Stephen Colbert is also then turned into news.

— Jon Stewart

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

— Jon Stewart

The press is our immune system. If it overreacts to everything, we eventually get sicker.

— Jon Stewart

Watching Fox, that's like watching the Cartoon Network. Fox is nuts.

— Jon Stewart

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

— Jon Stewart

The beautiful thing about faking a news show is the topicality is delayed.

— Jon Stewart

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

— Jon Stewart

I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the news easier to follow than narrative entertainment programs.

— Jon Stewart

You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you?

— Jon Stewart

We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the beauty of fake journalism. We don't have…

— Jon Stewart

I feel much more strongly about the abdication of responsibility by the media than by political advocates. They're representing a constituency.

— Jon Stewart

To me, that's where a lot of satire lies. News used to hold itself to a higher plane and slowly it has…

— Jon Stewart

I visit Fox News every now and again, and it's nice, because the Eye of Mordor is above the building.

— Jon Stewart

We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work…

— Jon Stewart

The government is just you know, blowing the doors off the media. And not everywhere, and I think, this is where you…

— Jon Stewart

We feel no obligation to follow the news cycle. In other words, I felt no obligation to cover story in anyway, because…

— Jon Stewart

The press has bravely and nobly eroded the public trust... What I'm advocating is the media come work for us again. Remove…

— Jon Stewart

I can't tell you how many times we'll run into a journalist and go, "Boy that's...I wish we could be saying that.…

— Jon Stewart

For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't you know, it's interesting. I think…

— Jon Stewart

I think it's just about the machine is about reporting the news, and then reporting the news about the news, and then…

— Jon Stewart

Everybody wrings their hands about Fox News. You know, "fair and balanced? Why, that's snide!" Yeah, okay, maybe they're not fair and…

— Jon Stewart

The frustration of our [The Daily] show is- very much outside any parameters of the media or the government. We don't have…

— Jon Stewart

The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much…

— Jon Stewart

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

— Jon Stewart

People would like to place a standard on our show that doesn't exist. We're not set up for reporting; we don't have…

— Jon Stewart

If you want, you can try and get a broader perspective, or you can find people who are absolutely out of their…

— Jon Stewart