David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. The least distrusted name in news
Or does that mean that the network news is just as insubstantial in delivering the news as “The Daily Show?�
This sort of struck me the other day when watching Stewart interview James McGreevey, the gay former governor of New Jersey. When McGreevey appeared on “Today,� Matt Lauer devoted much of his time grilling McGreevey on lurid details of his sex life. Stewart, by contrast, ignored that altogether and instead zeroed in on the political machinations amongst McGreevey’s staff members as his scandal was breaking, noting – with McGreevey agreeing – that the contemporary political mindset seemed to consist more of maintaining power via craven damage control than genuine governance. And “The Daily Show� seems more concerned with the government’s recent disinterest in habeas corpus than many in the mainstream media.
Hence: When rumors flew that Les Moonves was considering using Stewart in some fashion on “The CBS Evening News,� perhaps he wasn’t as crazy as those suggestions made him sound. Certainly, he could’ve saved CBS a lot of money by going with Stewart over Katie Couric, whose show is comfortably back in third place in the ratings.
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I didn't see the McGreevey "Daily Show" segment, but I saw "Today" and it was a bit lurid for morning TV. Not that I minded.
Posted by: Suzy Q | October 5, 2006 3:29 PM