CELEBS/ENTERTAINMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jon Stewart has been done with ‘The Daily Show’ for years, but he’s still one of the strongest media critics around. In a new interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Stewart chided journalists for taking President Trump’s ‘bait’ and taking his anti-media attacks too personally. First, Stewart shared a familiar critique: That Trump is ‘giving you all cash,’ that he’s helping the bottom lines of media companies due to the unending news and debate about all things Trump. While that might be an issue for news executives, Amanpour said, journalists ‘believe that our job is to navigate the truth and to do the fact-checking and all the rest of it’…Stewart said that when Trump derides the media — with ‘enemy-of-the-people’ type talk — ‘the journalists stand up and say, ‘We are noble, we are honorable — how dare you, sir.” This has been a common point of tension in the past two years. Some press critics and editors say that outraged reactions to Trump further fuels his anti-media messaging.”
–Brian Stelter, “How Trump conned the media, according to Jon Stewart,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, October 31, 2018 9:54 pm