NyTimes Gushes About What We Already Know: Jon Stewart Rocks

At The New York Times the most emailed article for the past few days is a profile about Jon Stewart, The Daily Show and how the two have their finger on the pulse of larger and larger chunk of thinking Americans. I really can't agree more with their portrayal of Stewart as a smart, shrewd and funny, funny man who really does care about the edification of his audience.

And apparently, the rest of America thinks so, too:

"Though this spot is the program’s mocking sendup of itself and the news media’s mania for self-promotion, it inadvertently gets at one very real truth: the emergence of “The Daily Show” as a genuine cultural and political force. When Americans were asked in a 2007 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press to name the journalist they most admired, Mr. Stewart, the fake news anchor, came in at No. 4, tied with the real news anchors Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw of NBC, Dan Rather of CBS and Anderson Cooper of CNN. And a study this year from the center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism concluded that '‘The Daily Show’ is clearly impacting American dialogue' and 'getting people to think critically about the public square.'"

via NyTimes