Television: The Most Trusted Man in America?

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'The Daily Show,' Doing Much More Than 'Throwing Spitballs'
Published 8/17/2008 by By The New York Times at TV Decoder
In Sunday’s New York Times, Michiko Kakutani assesses the emergence of “The Daily Show” as a genuine cultural and political force. Jon Stewart, the host, “describes his job as ‘throwing spitballs’ from the back of the room and points out that ‘The Daily Show’ mandate is to entertain, not inform,” ...

Midday links
Published 8/18/2008 by Joel Brown at TV with MeeVee
I like this recap of last night's "Mad Men" mainly because of one line about a sweater: "On weekends, Pete is apparently Rod Laver." Nice. "The Office" news: Someone on the Dunder Mifflin payroll has been busted for E and meth. Is there any greater waste of bandwidth than the "Big Brother" live feeds? The NYT likes Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show." I never got around to writing about "Architecture School" before its debut ...

Mark Ronson Vastly Understates Difficulty of Playing ‘Wonderwall’ on the Guitar
Published 8/18/2008 at Vulture
... "When in doubt, I can stare blankly. The rubber face. There's only so many ways you can stare incredulously at the camera and tilt an eyebrow, but that's your old standby: What would Buster Keaton do?" —Jon Stewart [NYT] ...

Trustiness
Published 8/19/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Scribe LA) at Borderline Inappropriate
... The Sunday NY Times ran an article on Jon Stewart asking the important question of whether he's the most trusted man in America. I think it prudent to note the answer is undoubtedly, though arguably, yes. In a time where there is no black or white, but shades of gray depending on your side of any issue, where truth can no longer be defined by any precedence of definition that came before it, it is Jon Stewart who four times a week gives us the lowdown on real speak politics, corporations, and the excessive nature of civilization as we know it in the current time ...