"Shift of the grift." Jon Stewart invents that description after he does a conversational session with Amy Goodman, then a talking heads - Jon Stewart style - with talking heads JS style - where he sees the current persona being advanced by Tucker Calrson as shift of the grift, in Carlson's showing a current souring against former cash cow advocacy toward Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHonUeO_ePU 

This screen capture -

 The segue from Goodman, watch that beginning to end - the segue to the analysts is at 1:26:10 with the entire item being 1:30:30 total length. Again, the Goodman conversation is top notch must view and the heart of the item, followed by Stewart's Board of Commentary parting segment.

Adding the follow-up adds something. They talk, "favorite emoji" which is a bit silly, but one commentator does what rang around in my mind before thinking it symbolized Leonard Leo at Federalist Society reacting to Trump announcing a nominated figure to fill a Supreme Court vacancy - this -

 Different age/gender than LL of FedSoc, but it hits my mind's imagining all the FedSoc insider group at a table watching Trump online announcing his making his choice for his Supreme Court vacancy, and all Knights of Malta and of the FedSoc Round Table there seeing LL;s thumbs up and then all fist bumping and high fiving all over the place in delight over their thing, TRIUMPHANT.

The actual comment around that image is not directed in the segment toward LL and FedSoc, the context is entirely different, but that has little impact on my melding the image with the FedSoc in the above imaginary context.

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Againt, Amy Goodman, and her discussing with Stewart journalism's true soul, and discussing the new documentary film: https://stealthisstory.org/ (vs what one commentator called "save it for the book" journalism.) 

If those notes strike a reader or two as incomplete, the gist is the first line of this poat - WATCH IT. 

And in the context of journalism being getting out true information in a way that speaks journalism vs  mass media's ways, which seem generally formulaic, with talking head over-serious pundits who do formulaic styles of punditry - consider how much truthful information you may or may not be getting out of Hegseth + Caine press briefings. There seems an eagerness there toward call it a victory while communicatingn a resonant subliminal insecurity over "God show me please an exit ramp." All for now.