{"id":7048,"date":"2009-03-13T10:47:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T18:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7048"},"modified":"2009-03-13T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T18:07:33","slug":"jon-stewart-interviews-jim-cramer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7048","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart interviews Jim Cramer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not the best reporting I&#8217;ve encountered about the financial crisis &#8212; that would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio_episode.aspx?sched=1242\">an episode of This American Life<\/a> &#8212; but an incredibly substantive discussion for TV. It&#8217;s pathetic that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.indecisionforever.com\/2009\/03\/13\/jon-stewart-and-jim-cramer-the-extended-daily-show-interview\/\">TV this good<\/a> can seemingly only happen on a comedy show.<\/p>\n<p>(If you need background on the Stewart vs. Cramer thing, watch <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.indecisionforever.com\/2009\/03\/10\/daily-show-and-colberts-best-jim-cramer-moments\/\">the first two videos here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2009\/03\/13\/cramer\/index.html\">Glenn Greenwald points out <\/a>that the only thing unusual about Cramer, among media talking heads, is that Cramer expresses some contrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not the best reporting I&#8217;ve encountered about the financial crisis &#8212; that would be an episode of This American Life &#8212; but an incredibly substantive discussion for TV. It&#8217;s pathetic that TV this good can seemingly only happen on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7048\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,39,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-and-the-like","category-in-the-news","category-media-criticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}