{"id":1042,"date":"2004-11-02T11:28:06","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T16:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/11\/02\/best_media_crit\/"},"modified":"2004-11-02T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T16:28:06","slug":"best_media_crit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/11\/02\/best_media_crit\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Media Critic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/printedition\/life\/20041102\/d_cover02.art.htm\">a profile of Jon Stewart<\/a>, except that Stewart refused to be interview, fearing he\u2019s getting overexposed.  Point well taken.  But his impact is clear.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The accolades are as ubiquitous as he is. Stewart&#8217;s effectiveness as a political humorist is akin to Will Rogers \u201cand probably two or three others in the last 100 years,\u201d says Darryl Paulson, a political scientist at the University of South Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been days when I see what they&#8217;ve done and I say, \u2018Wow, he&#8217;s the best media critic I know,&#8217; \u201d says Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism. This year, the Television Critics Association gave Stewart&#8217;s show, a five-time Emmy winner, its award for best news and information program. And this from Tom Brokaw: \u201cHe sees that the emperor has no clothes, and some of the mainstream media don&#8217;t have the same 20\/20 vision.\u201d Watching his show is \u201ca little like watching Seinfeld. You just can&#8217;t get enough.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a special live edition of The Daily Show tonight at 10:00 EST, an hour earlier and 30 minutes longer than usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today has a profile of Jon Stewart, except that Stewart refused to be interview, fearing he\u2019s getting overexposed. Point well taken. But his impact is clear. The accolades are as ubiquitous as he is. Stewart&#8217;s effectiveness as a political humorist is akin to Will Rogers \u201cand probably two or three others in the last&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/11\/02\/best_media_crit\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}