Jon Stewart on the Big Three TV News

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart mocks the big three cable news channels in this piece:

The sad thing is that people really do want in-depth journalism nowadays, but the big corporate owners of these organizations see these channels as profit making bodies vice public services and would rather keep the people distracted with sensationalism and trivial detritus. The flotsam and jetsam that is the subject of most television reporting these days only serves to keep us in bondage and restricts our freedoms.