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September 15, 2004
TT: Outer limit
From I Want Media's "Media Offline: Unlinkable Media Items" (a great idea for a regular on-line feature, by the way):Is Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's "Daily Show," comfortable as a member of the "real media"? asks the Sept. 17 issue of Entertainment Weekly. "In this day and age, anybody with a Web site is part of the real media," says Stewart. "Media is so all-encompassing. But we're not journalists, we're comedians. ... My colleagues are other fake news shows. Ted Koppel's not my colleague." What is Stewart's take on his recent interview with John Kerry? "It was a relatively mediocre talk-show experience," he says. "Actually, that's a great example of the limits of this program. People expected the show to create a 'new paradigm of info-enter-propa-gainment!' It ended up just being a comedian lamely making jokes to a presidential candidate who didn't want to embarrass himself or appear stiff."
Posted September 15, 2004 12:05 PM
