Rally to Restore Sanity Had an Anti-Fox, Anti-MSNBC Motive - Charlie Warner - MediaBizBloggers

Comedians John Stewart39s and Stephen Colbert39s rally of reasonable people was hugely successful drawing massive crowds to the Mall in Washington Billed as a Rally to Restore Sanity it was in fact a rally meant to boost the ratings for Stewart and Colbert39s programs on Comedy Central and to diss Fox Cable News39s and MSNBC39s credibility and hopefully lower their ratingsJon Stewart39s closing speech was a modern masterpiece of reasonableness sanity and newsmedia bashing destined to become a classic along with Neil Postman39s Amusing Ourselves to Death Longtime blogger and CUNY Journalism School professor Jeff Jarvis went to the rally and posted an excellent account as did The Huffington Post39s Jeff Linkins where you can see a video of Stewart39s stirring speech Both blogs are worth reading to get a flavor of the excitement sanity and reasonableness and don39t miss watching Stewart39s speechOne of my favorite quotes from his speech isquotThe press is our immune system If it overreacts to everything we actually get sickerand perhaps eczema And yet I feel good Strangely calmly good Because the image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false It is us through a funhouse mirrorand not the good kind that makes you look slim in the waist and maybe taller but the kind where you have a giant forehead and an ass shaped like a monthold pumpkin and one eyeballquotBut don39t forget that wingnuts are seething Nothing could piss them off more than sanity and reasonableness and decency to say nothing of dissing their insane unreasonable and indecent idols on Fox News They are waiting to celebrate their gains in Congress after Election Day and will mistakenly believe that the outcome will confirm their obsessive hatred of Obama big government and taxesSo thank you Jon and Stephen for pointing out the stupidity of the bloviating pundits on cable news and asking for sanity even if it was basically a promotion to boost your ratingsUntil he retired in 2002 Charlie Warner was Vice President of AOL39s Interactive Marketing division Before joining AOL he was the Goldenson Endowed Professor at the Missouri Journalism School where he taught media management and sales and he created and ran the annual Management Seminar for News Executives Charlie can be contacted at charleshwarnergmailcomRead all Charlieamp8217s MediaBizBloggers commentaries at Charlie Warner MediaBizBloggersCheck us out on Facebook at MediaBizBloggerscomFollow our Twitter updates MediaBizBlogger

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