Breakfast with Jon Stewart
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart traveled to Denver, Colorado to cover the 2008 Democratic Convention. Stewart held a breakfast meeting with journalists from The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other news organizations. Jon Stewart spoke with the print media writers about the loss of journalistic integrity on cable TV news networks and stressed the importance that they not follow the same route.1
Fast Facts
- Breakfast was held August 25, 2008
- Meeting was held in a conference room at the University of Denver
- The breakfast was not recorded on audio or video
Quotes
So, here's twenty or so of the top dead tree news people in the country gathered around a breakfast table asking a short scraggly comedian how they can do their jobs better and rise above the fray of discourse set by the cable news networks.—Dennis DiClaudio
Jon tried to make the reporter understand the absurdity of his question, Jon pointed out that, for a journalist, an inability to see the difference between talking to Jon Stewart in a room full of other reporters taking notes and shooting the s***t with a man who may be given the authority to deploy American troops into another country is dangerous in the extreme.—Dennis DiClaudio2
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