Jon Stewart leaving The Daily Show - Intelligent World Mourns

I'd bet most Daily Show viewer use at least one news aggregator site. They're probably internet savvy unlike FAUX viewers.

My homepage is ig home with Google news, the NY Times, CNN, NPR and the BBC

 

which means you're getting your news from several sites, but essentially the same source, and with zero political, or intellectual, diversity.

 

news aggregation is your idea of internet savvy?

 

From the early days of electronic comedy stretching from Will Rogers through the present, political comedy has been an important American asset. We need an ever widening circle of comedians willing to let the air out of the tires of sacrosanct politicians and bureaucrats regardless of their political stripes.

Jon Stewart over the years has done an excellent job of that, although I do lament that some here view his work as "news" rather than savvy satire and/or commentary.

I commend Stewart for deciding to leave his show while at the top, or near the top, of his game. A hiatus in his career at this point may breathe new life into even brighter and more salient projects. Let us so hope.

 

I don't know anyone who view his work as "news" as opposed to entertainment. Stewart has taken great pains to point out that his is NOT a "news" show, that it is aired on Comedy Central, and that the fact that people point out that he is better than the 24-hour "news" channels speaks to their low quality, not to his status as any kind of newsman.

 

^^

GladiatoRowdy -- please read the thread before making idiotic comments like you just did. You're wrong.

 

nobody ever said they got their news from Will Rogers.

 

Ummmm, I don't think I did either.

 

LOL. I did specifically said that "I don't know anyone" who fit the description I used. I'm sorry you are unable to properly infer that I was talking about people I know, not anonymous posters on a BBS, but your inability to understand would make YOU the one making "idiotic comments."

You must really enjoy being my beyotch, given the number of times you let me punk you like this.

 

BWAAAAAHAHAHA what a pathetic dance! You know what you meant, and you got called out, son.

Dance! Dance! Dance!

 

indeed, you did not.

 

Your inability to understand points to YOU as the idiot, idiot.

It must truly suck to be so completely owned by another poster as you are by me.

 

I'll give this to Jon, he takes the effort to read and evaluate his guest's books (which a third of the guest are on to promote). It's funny to hear guest say "I say it in my book, read my book" and are surprised when he response... "I did". I find that most others don't take the time.

 

Conservatives attack his show as news because he cuts right through conservative nonsense that doubles as policy, he's really funny doing it, and boy is there a lot of it out there. They're like the gift that keeps on giving. Conservative responses are generally angry and nasty. They don't know how to deal with him really because they don't have anyone on the conservative end of the spectrum that can do what Stewart does in such a light and funny way.

 

Apparently you are unfamiliar with comedian/commentators such as Dennis Miller and Greg Gutfeld.

 

Actually I am, that's why I made the comment. :grin:

 

Milo Hamilton says "Put a yello...errr...gold star on that one!!!"

Last Week Tonight with former Daily Show guy John Oliver, Sundays on HBO, is a quality show.

 

There are millions of viewers of TDS that are less inclined to accept political bulls*** and 24 hour news cycle hyperbole.

That's a legacy that won't die.

It's still ineffective against the overwhelming corporate control of information and politics, but at least the cadre' exists.

 

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffr...er-jon-stewarts-career-trashing-conservatives

enjoy or cry