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Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry

posted by cmn32480 on Monday May 11 2015, @03:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the who-is-your-talking-head dept.

gishzida writes:

Reuters tells us:

As Jon Stewart winds down his 19-year stint as host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, he and Stephen Colbert sit at the peak of American punditry despite their left-leaning view of life, the universe and everything.

In an era of diffused voices and divided politics, they are well known, widely admired, and speak to Americans in ways that no one else does, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.

This poll tracks 10 different pundits. Split evenly between conservative and liberal. It is also worth noting that four of the five on the liberal side are comedians, while none of the conservative pundits are trained to tell jokes.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by AntiAntagonist on Monday May 11 2015, @03:25PM

    by AntiAntagonist (4978) on Monday May 11 2015, @03:25PM (#181496)

    The link given in the blurb didn't work. I believe they wanted to link to this poll [reuters.com].

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by captain normal on Monday May 11 2015, @04:06PM

    by captain normal (2205) on Monday May 11 2015, @04:06PM (#181512)

    Doesn't really matter, it's one of the worst pieces of HTML crap I've seen. Don't they have editors at Reuters anymore?

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  • (Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Tuesday May 12 2015, @03:27AM

    by mrcoolbp (68) <mrcoolbp@soylentnews.org> on Tuesday May 12 2015, @03:27AM (#181779) Homepage

    Thanks, I've updated the link in the story.

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