Can we trust NewsTrust?

There's an article in AlterNet by Rory O'Connor concerning a self-described "online social news network" that promises "free, not-for-profit service" offering " the most trusted news of the day, as selected by community members using state-of-the-art media literacy tools."

A noble cause, to which we say, "Hooray."

But look carefully at the second paragraph:

After all, we live in an age of media scams and scandals -- from blowing it up on "Dateline" NBC to making it up in the New York Times (and the Daily News and USA Today and the Boston Globe and the New Republic and so on, ad nauseum and seemingly ad infinitum…) and from Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" to O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It" show… from Fox News to faux news all the way to even phonier video 'news' releases… and from government-and-corporate-sponsored "opinion" commentary to paid Pentagon propaganda posing as authentic journalism to Disney's undocumented 911 "docudrama" -- wherever and whenever you look, examples of media make-believe abound.

Did you catch it?

He lumps "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" in with everything phony about the news.

Well, here's some news for Mr. O'Connor: "The Daily Show" is fake news, and they never claim to be anything else. It's comedy, not news.

Of course, Stewart's (and his writers') wit continually cut through the crap to get to the heart of the matter (through comedy), but it's still comedy.

O'Connor almost had us there. Too bad.