https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/15/magazine/jon-stewart-interview.html
At some point in the last year I recall (but now can't find) something about Elizabeth Warren and her first appearance on Colbert Report in 2010. The story went that Warren did her spot, wrapped, and Colbert said to her that it sounded like she didn't say what she wanted to say. What did she want to say, Colbert asked her. She told him. Colbert reset, did a little bit of a reshoot, asked a few more questions that helped her get her point across, and helped. I think the fact that I can imagine Colbert would do that, but never Stewart, says a lot about how history will handle the two going forward. I also have never seen an interviewer really push Stewart that, in big interviews against actual important people, he almost always genuflected and folded. His standard excuse is that he was entertainment, not news, but that's just bullshit: he could light people up when he wanted to, he just didn't want to light up the *wrong* people. And Charlie Pierce on his Twitter account pointed out how Stewart bothsides the problems each party has: “When you have a duopoly, there is no incentive to work together to create something better...We’re incentivized for more extreme candidates, for more extreme partisanship, for more conflict and permanent campaigning.” There's so much disingenuousness in that I can't stand it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2Bc_1umwVLh29%2BEw%3DwV7ttn_D4VghageNYdTnDt1D4AdwA%40mail.gmail.com.
