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Here is what I believe is the paradigm that would be effective and what I would love to see, and you're going to laugh because Fox News is my model. What Fox has done is they've got a guy, Roger Ailes, who's passionate and has created a model for a 24-hour news station that makes money based on a point of view... Using Fox's model, find someone with the passion and the huevos to just lay it on the line - not in a partisan way, not in the pursuit of political power and political gain, but in the pursuit of credibility. In the pursuit of being a judge, an arbiter, and earning the trust of the audience over time as an oversight to the shenanigans of the political world.

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About this quote

What does it mean?
Stewart suggests news channels should prioritize credibility over partisan views to earn trust.
In plain terms
He says news should seek trust not partisan views.
What can you take from it?
Credibility is more valuable than partisan opinion.

Where it applies

  • media reform
  • news consumption
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Putting it to work

  • demand accountability
  • critique bias
  • support credibility

Questions to consider

  • Can news be truly neutral?

Another view

True neutrality is difficult to achieve.

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