[lbo-talk] Anyone see Jon Stewart on Crossfire?

[Sean Johnson Andrews]

Not only was this a media event in the terms of its text, i.e what was said, 
but it seems that many people also felt it was significant in a wider, 
cultural way. In addition to the posts of movie links I received from 
CULTSTUD and LBO (below), I was tying to find the links myself and there 
were extensive discussions in several places with a context to see who could 
get a full clip of the exchange online with the new P2P software 
(http://bittorrent.com/). The two biggest converstions I came across were on 
MetaFilter and DailyKos--logical places for it to appear. But these were 
already linked to several others including one on the DU and I am sure I 
could have found many more--all with hundreds of comments already. And the 
transcript is already linked to major blogs like Wonkette, atrios, and 
Andrew Sullivan (though they don't seem "subversive" enough to link to the 
video) and I have mostly stopped looking. This could be a major news story 
by morning (Washington Post already h!
as a stor.

Perhaps I am just too impressed with the exchange itself to think 
objectively or just up too late on a Friday night to not be overwhelmed by 
the otherwise mundane, but this was seems something that has struck a 
chord--and it seems a unique way that television is functioning via the 
internet. How many of these clips, I wonder, were authorized by the network 
from which they were taken? I am rarely up goofing around online like this 
and also find it amazing that all of these people have been staying up, 
commenting, and diligently trying to exchange this clip like some sort of 
totem. Does anyone else find this unique in the response and practices 
surrounding it or do I just happen to have more time on my hands this 
evening to notice? Just wondering...

best,
sean

Sean Andrews
Cultural Studies Program
George Mason University

FROM CULT STUD
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael D. Giardina" <giardina at uiuc.edu>
Date: Saturday, October 16, 2004 1:11 am
Subject: Re: [cultstud-l] crossfire - video clip now available


> FYI - for those interested in seeing the interview transpire, you can 
> download a seven-minute video clip of Stewart's Crossfire appearance at 
> MediaMatters.org (in both .mpg and .wmv formats). I've provided the link 
> below:
> http://mediamatters.org/items/200410160003
> Cheers, Mike
> _______________________________________ Mike Giardina Visiting Research 
> Scholar Institute of Communications Research University of Illinois, 
> Urbana-Champaign
>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "snit snat" <snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>; <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 1:09 AM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Anyone see Jon Stewart on Crossfire?


> At 07:39 PM 11/15/2004, Stephen Philion wrote:
>>Stewart totally set up Begala and Carlson today by coming on the show and 
>>in all total seriousness asking them to stop it
>>with the fake debate, spin,...They were totally caught off guard by his 
>>seriousness.
>>And, to top it all off, he told Carlson he was a 'dick'!!
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