"They got to just move into the house and not worry about the plumbing and not worry about the roof. What they could just do is start decorating and then start adding to it and then just really having the parties they wanted," said Winstead. "We couldn't have handed the media a bigger mirror with which to look at themselves and say, 'I guess we need to self-correct,'" said Winstead. "And instead, a lot of cable news was like, 'Oh, what people want in the news is wacky graphics.'" Winstead had always been a comedian mining social and political humor, but it took the way CNN covered the first Gulf War that led her to "The Daily Show."

Source: Daily Sun July 19, 2021 15:22 UTC