“I’m headed to where stars are born,” Jon Stewart said Thursday night, on his last program before leaving the Daily Show for a three month hiatus. “The Middle East in the dead of summer.” Stewart will be directing a movie based on the experiences of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari, whom the Daily Show profiled in […]

CNN, Fox News and the AP — but mostly CNN — are taking some shots this morning for their inaccurate reporting yesterday that an arrest had been made in the Boston blasts. The AP’s media reporter David Bauder, in his story today: “Amid the confusion, the Columbia Journalism Review offered a one-word tweet: ‘Sigh.’” The […]

On his show Tuesday night, Jon Stewart took a skeptical look at voter ID laws and voter fraud: Who are they actually targeting? After first showing a Pennsylvania lawmaker’s comment about how voter ID will help Mitt Romney win the state come November, Stewart noted that the issue of voter fraud “by all accounts, is […]