Jon Stewart called out the media’s exploitative practices, along with their refusal to appear on his new Apple TV show The Problem with Jon Stewart.

Appearing on The Howard Stern Show Tuesday morning, the comic discussed the difficulty he’s had getting representatives from any media outlet to visit his show.

“We tried very hard to get a person who runs a news division now to come on the show, to speak publicly. They all turned us down,” Stewart said. “These are people that run news organizations. People that their business model relies on access and transparency."

"Their whole reason for being is -- what do they say? 'Democracy dies in darkness.' You know, it's all about transparency and 'the powerful must be held to account,' and when you ask them to defend their product and their business model,' he said. "None of them would appear!"

“It's f***ing crazy," said Stewart. "They make it so that you owe them access, and yet when you want to put them on camera to talk about the business model that you think is exploitative...”

“If you work in an industry where the reason for being is to find out the truth and illuminate the dark corners and to expose corruption and yet you yourself will not come on and allow that same scrutiny to be applied to you? F***ing incredible," he summarized.

Hard to argue with saying the press should be at least as accountable and subject to scrutiny as the subjects of their coverage - if not more so.

Jon Stewart's role as critic in society is all the more valuable for being consistent on this, not to mention correct again.

Twitter accounts associated with the Kremlin are using Lara Logan to portray Ukrainian soldiers as Nazis and occultists.

On far-right platform Real America’s Voice last week, the sidelined Fox Nation host said she did not “buy” reporting which shows Russia has inflicted widespread devastation on Ukraine since its invasion of the country.

Interviewer and former Fox Newser Ed Henry said Russia had “caused a lot of destruction;” noting the war has created a humanitarian crisis and that the conflict “has not gone as well as Vladimir Putin expected.”

Logan pushed back, saying: “I don’t buy it for a second, and I’ll be honest with you. I really think that there’s so much misinformation. We’ve never really seen anything like it. I mean, I’ve been covering wars now for 35 years.”

The ex-60 Minutes correspondent went on to attack Ukrainian troops, linking them to Nazis and a Third Reich-era obsession with the occult, taking particular aim at Ukraine’s far-right nationalist Azov Battalion.

“I mean, you can find pictures of them online holding up the NATO flag and the swastika,” she said. “And at the same time, their own emblem contains the black sun of the occult, which was a Nazi SS emblem.

Russian Twitter accounts began sharing snippets and Russian officials quoted and praising her.

Logan has not produced any work for Fox Nation since she compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele last November. She was dropped by UTA in January.

So adding apparatchik aficionado to the resume, in other words, isn't that big of a leap. But still not at all a good look.