10-19-2004, 06:21 AM
Zarathustra,Oct 19 2004, 12:29 AM Wrote:I agree that it was within his rights... but his responsibilities? To say such questions are his responsibility means he was wrong in refraining from those questions - shirking his duty, so to speak - and I don't agree.
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Being within your rights and being within your responsibilities are two completely different things.
For example, it is within the rights of any journalist to put his own personal slant and/or opinion on the news when he or she is reporting it. It is not within their responsibility to do so however, since it is they are supposed to report the news in a fair and unbiased manner so that the individual can form their own opinions.
In Jon Stewart's case, he would not be outside the bounds of his rights or responsibility to ask more substantial (or "pointed", if you will) questions to his higher-profile guests. I'm not saying that I dislike the interviews he conducts (quite to the contray in fact for the vast majority of them), but there could certainly be more substance to them if he so desired.
--Mith
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London