Last week the news media made a big deal about comedian Wyatt Cenac's revelation about Jon Stewart's 'racism' on the Daily Show where he yelled at Wyatt during a pitch meeting because he had a problem with his impersonation of a Hermain Cain because it was too close to sounding like King Fish.
If you don't know about it, basically Jon Stewart yelled: "I'm done with you!" at this meeting and went on to blow up into an even bigger thing because it was never really settled. At least not to Wyatt's satisfaction.
If you want to hear about the real exchange, you should listen to the entire interview to get it in the right context. What I really want to talk about though is the evolving process of how traditional and social media have created a misdirection which is somewhat marketable before the facts come in.
No one really gave much attention to the mentioned podcast before the POTUS interview. Right after that, we saw how quick the mainstream media reported on what he said, which is a given since POTUS is the biggest 'get' any show can have.
But now they're paying attention, as we can see from the reporting of Wyatt Cenac's interview. In both of these cases though, people who have only gotten a portion of the interviews suddenly have opinions which are marketable if only for a little bit.
For instance, a lot of people who didn't listen to the Obama interview in its entirety, if at all, were questioned by major media outlets in some cases about the president using the word 'nigger' on the podcast.
On a smaller level though, we have the case of Eric Hites a.k.a. "Fat Guy" Across America who was initially covered by The Newport Daily News for doing something rather extraordinary to save his own life and his relationship with his wife, where he's having to fight off trolls who've painted his wife as the bad person in the relationship. (Bubblews)
There's nothing anyone can do about this but to point out the failings of the news media where they do thorough research in their stories in most cases (or they're supposed to) and yet they won't put much value in any real truth and just creating these points where they can stimulate conversation on whatever topic they can find to inflame it to its fullest capacity.
By the way, let me point out that being there is a different thing to comment on altogether as opposed to listening or reading the details. Just so you know!