Jon Stewart Hails Newspapers' Campaign Coverage -- Hits Cable News

"Daily Show" host Jon Stewart ripped cable news networks but hailed newspapers for their political coverage. Yet Stewart observed that newspapers are fighting "a losing battle because they're getting overshadowed." Among other descriptives, he labeled the cable news networks "gerbil wheels." Other highlights from his talk, as observed by Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post: Stewart hit Fox News in particular as "an appendage of the Republican Party." He called Fox's "fair and balanced" slogan an insult "to people with brains. ... Barack Obama could cure cancer and they'd figure out a way to frame it as an economic disaster." Stewart also knocked CNN and MSNBC's "false sense of urgency they create, the sense that everything is breaking news. ... The 24-hour networks are now driving the narratives, and everyone else is playing catch-up."