Hey, I’m so old that I remember when reporters used to actually look for news in the first place, even apart from publication timing. But to Jon Stewart’s point, having a TV news program every weekday on prime time would suggest that “bombshells” should have presented a little sooner to the American public than at the end of a book publisher’s cycle. Or as Patricia Heaton put it on X, via John Nolte at Breitbart, “Can you imagine Walter Cronkite constantly hawking a book?”
Stewart cuts to the point almost immediately in his monologue last night:
.@jonstewart is getting whiplash watching CNN pivot from promoting Jake Tapper’s “bombshell” book to lamenting Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis pic.twitter.com/pShybi5F6e
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) May 20, 2025
After ridiculing Tapper and CNN for selling in book form breaking news that respectable journalists…
