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Originally Posted by Gozer
The only difference between the Daily Show and CNN or Fox is the image they portray. "Worldwide news leaders" and "Fair and Balanced" are funnier to me than "Goofy noises and sarcasm."
Other than who they say they are, they're all the same. Just trying to pander to their audience, support their narrative, and avoid doing anything long enough to become boring.
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Actually, it probably says the 18-30 group is easily bored and not particularly serious, with Jon Stewart recognizing a market and a unique, modern method to bring that demographic into the heavier aspects of debate.
That would be very similar to Fox News recognizing, rather brilliantly I might add, from a business point of view, that people like to hear their news from someone they already agree with . . . . . a model more recently being followed by MSNBC on the left wing. CNN, with the gassing of Lou Dobbs, is clearly hoping there is a market in neutrality, something O'Reilly was scoffing at the other day when Dobbs was his guest.
The "warm blanket factor" is the real result of modern technology fracturing the dispensing of news in the new world.
So, I don't believe people when they say Stewart is "just an entertainer." He's just another warm blanket, albeit a quirky one.
He likes to say he's an entertainer, to try and separate himself before he comes down like a ton of bricks on a hapless victim, but he has to know he's not . . . . at least not in his manner and not to a certain demographic. It's also, very clearly, a way for him to escape his critics when they come for him.
A guy like Stewart and his method of news delivery, however, might actually be a good thing if it gets that younger demographic more interested in serious issues than they might have been otherwise. That's really where he may deserve credit.
In another century, I was once a writer. I don't mind telling people I was completely bored with English classes in school and my professional writing style was, in fact, heavily influenced by comic books. Is that a crime? Nope. Without Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commando's, I may not have had the communication skills I've had at a later date in life.
Whatever works.
Just don't tell me Jon Stewart is an entertainer. And don't let him get away with it if he says that's all he is.
Cowperson