Once Upon a Time

"The outlook is for the end of the decline in business during the early part of the 1931, and steady... revival for the remainder of the year."

-- The Harvard Economic Society's Weekly Letter,
November, 15, 1930

Note: In 1931, the economic squeeze of the depression forced the Harvard Economic Society to suspend publication of the Weekly Letter.

Source: "The working person's history of the great depression," Show me the Money, Issue 10, Autumn 2001.

Jon Stewart Eviscerates CNBC and Rick Santelli

The Daily Show... some of the only real news on MSM. You must watch this to the end for a kicker. Jon Stewart says, on the air, what we would all like to say if we had a TV show.



The Daily Show videos typically get between 30,000 - 70,000 visits. Some shows get over, 100,000. This episode broke a million visits when I checked: 1,167,657.

Thanks to Dusty of The Sirens Chronicles for the tip-off (tho her video link didn't work too well), and gbCerberus37 for posting this to YouTube.

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Send your THANKS to the Daily Show via This E-mail Form. Here is my praise of the March 4, 2009 Daily Show segment:

Wow, I never thought I'd see a colostomy surgery on US TV. The job that Jon Stewart did on Rick Santelli was fascinating. The audio editing job at the end of the segment was top notch. Keep this material coming... over 1 million hits... 10-times your typical traffic. You're onto something here.

Bethany McLean: Role Model

Here's a good role model for girls and young women. Bethaney McLean, 34, exposed the Enron scandal as a writer for Fortune magazine. She's now a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and gets invited to be on the Daily Show with John Stewart and PBS NOW with David Brancaccio just to name a couple.

Co-author of "The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron," McLean was about 25 in March 2001 when her article in Fortune titled, "Is Enron Overpriced?," was the first in a national publication to openly question the company's dealings. The book was eventually turned into a video documentary.

Here's a short video of Bethany McLean on the Daily Show:

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Aspiring journalists and others might find this interview with Bethany McLean on journalism jobs.com worth reading.