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.”