Monday, December 27, 2010

In ‘Daily Show’ Role on 9/11 Bill, Echoes of Murrow

nprfreshair:

We woke up to the New York Times asking this question today:

“Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up as a personal cause?

“And does that make that comedian, Jon Stewart — despite all his protestations that what he does has nothing to do with journalism — the modern-day equivalent of Edward R. Murrow?”

As it happens Stewart, one of the more polarizing and relevant comedians of our lifetime, was a guest on the show earlier this year. As part of our ongoing series of the most entertaining interviews of the year, Fresh Air will re-broadcast Terry’s interview with the Daily Show host tomorrow. The conversation was recorded in September of 2010 in front of a studio audience at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan and covered topics from Glenn Beck and Christine O’Donnell to his homelife and how the show gets made. 

— braiker

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    see also: //www.national911memorial.org/New_About_Board
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  3. starcrossedlady said: Jon may not be Edward R Murrow, but perhaps a modern Will Rogers. Would like to see him try some rope tricks :)
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