Jon Stewart Rips

From Comic rips media's false sense of urgency by Joe Garofoli:

It is a telling media milepost as political convention TV coverage unfolds over the next two weeks: Jon Stewart is now the dean of commercial network political convention anchors. The old guard is either retired, deceased or disgraced.

Like everything on Stewart's Comedy Central network, the line about his status as an anchor is uttered with mock gravitas and a raised eyebrow by the cable network's publicists and show staffers. But behind Stewart's wink is a serious passion about holding government accountable and the need for aggressive reporting that he rarely shows publicly. This week he did.

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