Jon Stewart opened Tuesday night's Daily Show with a powerful indictment of how cable news covered the Washington Navy Yard shooting, aimed squarely at the "breathless wrongness" of CNN. Stewart spent not one, but two whole segments mercilessly tearing CNN apart for how awfully it covered the shooting, especially all the unnecessary speculation. Stewart yelled at one CNN reporter, "You're just standing in front of a camera naming shit you see!" and likened it to "walking down the street with a five-year-old." He ran the gamut from one anchor demanding to know the size of a building to another asking about the clothes someone who may have been the suspect possibly wore. And even tempering the speculation wasn't enough, with Stewart advising that if what you're about might be incredibly wrong, "don't say them out loud!"
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