Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart noted Wednesday night that the campaign of Hillary Clinton is just two days old, and it’s already featured two days of over-the-top ridiculous media coverage, including surveillance camera video of Secretary Clinton’s Chipotle lunch, and, then, “Tuesday’s ‘oh my God, oh my God, that’s her car!'” That, a story that involved actual paid reporters running after something called “the Scooby van.”
As Stewart put it, “there are a lot of good reasons to chase a van. If the van was the Good Humor truck–and you were five.”
Also getting “Seriously Guys, What Are We Doing Here” treatment is NBC’s “Today,” which opened the 7 a.m. hour with video of the shooting of Walter Scott. “It’s 7 a.m., I’m making oatmeal, you open the “Today” show with ‘Good Morning,’ and the video of an actual murder?”
Stewart said 24-hour cable news ends up, in many cases, shifting “these devastating videos into screensaver mode.”