On Someone Got 'The Daily Show' in My Jezebel and Together They Taste A Little Weird
The point, which gets missed in all the Jezebel-hate, Olivia Munn squawking, and crosstalk, is that the whole incident, from inception to its current state, never had to happen. Irin went with what she had, and what she had told her that Jon Stewart and The Daily Show were not a bastion of feminism, because the visible talent and the writing staff are not filled with women, and chalked it up to any number of possible reasons, including the tired trope "women aren't funny."
What I had hoped for, was a letter back from The Daily Show, saying, "Hey listen, fair points, but I think you were misinformed, here's how it works out," and that would have ended it. Instead, someone thought to insert Jezebel into a planned piece, taking as a quote something which was not written in the article, and following it up with a letter on their web site which, while showing that there are women working in there in larger numbers than is generally known, but in a snarky and self-deprecating way. Civility would have worked better, to my mind, than comedic counterpoint.
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On Someone Got 'The Daily Show' in My Jezebel and Together They Taste A Little Weird
It's not just a comedic news program though -- polls show that people actually get news content from the show, which means it has the capacity to shape opinions. I'm not saying they have to apologize; what I am saying, is that, rather than pull a Fox News lambasting Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart could have shown Fox News a thing or two by not simply turning around and lashing back at his critics.
What it boils down to is that it was an article, one critical of the show, and that it does no good to simply put down the argument with a flippant remark.