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« Last post by SVPete on March 03, 2026, 04:32:22 PM »Jon Stewart: Media ‘Squandered’ Trust with Trump-Russia Collusion ‘Hype Machine’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2026/03/02/jon-stewart-media-squandered-trust-with-trump-russia-collusion-hype-machine/
I never watched his show, but I have to ask, how much time, how many bits did Stewart do on the Gotcha-Trump hamster wheel? Is he now calling out as a trust-loser what he himself did back in 2017-2019?
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2026/03/02/jon-stewart-media-squandered-trust-with-trump-russia-collusion-hype-machine/
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Stewart revealed his thoughts about the issue on his podcast The Weekly Show when speaking with MS NOW host Ali Velshi.
“I think within the media, it gets back to — you talked about it earlier — you said, ‘It’s about what you earn with your audience.’ And I wonder if, in media, they’ve squandered some of that based on those incentives,” said Steward.
“So, for instance, we’ll go back to, like — there’s always that rush of, like, ‘Now we’ve got Trump, and the Mueller report, and it’s Mueller time,’ and all these things,” he continued. “And the hype machine that generates that, whether it was for action in Iraq or accountability through these special counsels — that it raises an expectation of its audience.”
Velshi called that very hype machine a “dopamine rush” that ultimately led to nothing. Stewart likened it to a hamster wheel that ultimately numbed the audience.
“The more you run on that hamster wheel, or gerbil wheel … I wonder if that begins to numb your audience to consequence. And is that where the trust has been lost? That not only is it about holding to account, but it’s about tempering their expectation,” Stewart said.
I never watched his show, but I have to ask, how much time, how many bits did Stewart do on the Gotcha-Trump hamster wheel? Is he now calling out as a trust-loser what he himself did back in 2017-2019?
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