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Daily Show Beat Meet The Press To The Punch On Jon Krakauer

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Daily Show Beat Meet The Press To The Punch On Jon Krakauer

Here's an excellent observation from Mediaite's Rachel Sklar, who reminds us that while the big news to come out of Meet The Press this week has been author Jon Krakauer's assertion that General Stanley McChrystal, commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was implicated in the cover-up about the death of Pat Tillman, that big news had already been more or less broken by Jon Stewart and The Daily Show:All of that is absolutely right, and it's worth pointing out that Stewart conducted his interview with a greater awareness of where the news is in an interview with Jon Krakauer. That meant that Daily Show viewers got an interview that began with the Pat Tillman story and went on for six probing minutes. Meanwhile, at Meet The Press, Krakauer sat on the set like window dressing, and the subject of Pat Tillman wasn't broached until the show's final sequence of questions. Why have him on then? MR. KRAKAUER: The--after Tillman died, the most important thing to know is that within--i
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Posted: 11/3/2009

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