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Send in the Clowns
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16 years 3 months ago
Yes, and sometimes people like Jon Stewart, of on "The Daily Show," also do a far better job of explicating and explaining the news of the day than do the more "serious" networks. Where the networks will typically have a brief few seconds of footage of a particular topic, often on "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" you will get not only the entire story (sometimes over the space of five or ten minutes) but a more detailed, if trenchantly funny, analysis of the story. Plus, there's less of the network's dreadfully solipsistic "news you can use," that is, the latest diet pill or wrinkle-remover. That is another reason why so many younger viewers get more of their news from Comedy Central than CBS.
16 years 3 months ago
There is absolutely nothing anyone could possibly do to justify a salary of $40,000,000, unless they have found a cure for cancer.
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