Jon Stewart
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- sarahfailin0
One thing that hasn't been said here about the Daily Show isn't so much a news show as a show ABOUT the news. They report ON the news, giving you a digest about what is being said and not being said about issues on TV.
To me, bringing to light how party talking points come out in supposedly independent news reporting has been a significant contribution to journalism. The Daily Show revealed how ideology is propagated by Fox News through repetition, and they show how lacking in journalistic merit the rest of so called TV reporting is.
When Bill O'Reilly pointed out how Jon was biased, and how they weren't doing real reporting, Jon replied (I'm parsing), "That's not my job. I'm a comedian. My show comes on before the puppets that make prank phone calls. You're the guy who calls his show the 'No Spin Zone.'"
I think that the Daily Show has been the voice of a generation of people who admittedly are not scholars nor news hounds but who see the serious deficits in what the major outlets are offering them in terms of information. By reporting on the inadequacy of the TV news itself, the Daily Show offered that age-old proclamation which every citizen loves to relish: "The emperor has no clothes!"