Jon Stewart Tells Maziar Bahari’s Story With ‘Rosewater’
At “The Daily Show,” he said, “I’m accustomed to having a stupid idea at 9 o’clock, it’s on the air by 6, and you can forget about it. The more glacial pace of film development seemed frustrating.”
.. The impulse to praise journalists who pursue their craft honorably and under dangerous conditions, he said, was not all that different from the reflex to lampoon them when they fail to meet their own standards.
“The only reason you mock something is when it doesn’t live up to the ideal,” he said. “There’s a huge difference between what these journalists are doing on the ground, and the perversion of it that is the 24-hour news networks.”