Lessons from the Idiot Box

[duvinnie]

great article about Daily Show and the lessons for dems on how to engage the media.

With its talking turd and adolescent
T&A it’s easy to dismiss Comedy
Central as a joke. But then 11 o’clock
ET rolls around, and the upstart basic
cable network presents the sharpest 22
minutes of news on TV.
...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=418_0_1_0_C

This quote from Jon made me sit up:

Last year on Larry King’s
CNN show Stewart put it this way: “We often hear that dissenting voices have not
been heard since September 11. And that’s been a criticism, that those voices have
not been encouraged, but my feeling is that those voices haven’t resonated.”