With all the hoo-haa about the New York Times, the part that blogs played in the upheaval there, the constant bickering about blogs by pro/am journos etc; it’s fantastic to see that not all parts of the media are being forced to wise up to their ‘former audience’.

The caption below proceeds each weekly showing of “The Daily Show” on CNN Europe; accompanied by a thunderous James-Earl-Jones-type reading the text in voice-over:

It’s so patronising it makes me giggle very time. Often I wonder whether Jon Stewart and his crew of merry pranksters didn’t insist on it in their distribution contract. It’s half-disclaimer, half-comedy-warm-up.

Perhaps other scandalised big media should follow suit…