Jon Stewart: America's most trusted news anchor

By GottaLaff

From our pal Wolfe Tone, one of my faves:

Time Magazine has conducted an on-line poll to determine who, since the death of Walter Cronkite, now holds the title of America's Most Trusted News Anchor™.

Bizarrely, it's Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show. [...]

Stewart uses the news, and his interviews with news makers, as a foil for some pretty brilliant comedy.

As part of that comedy, he often presents his audience with what the "news" actually means. [...]

Perhaps Time Magazine included him in the poll as a tongue-in-cheek measure.

But maybe, just maybe, Jon Stewart was included because he keeps doing the job that many actual journalists should be doing.

Over and over again.

Allow me to add, he cuts through the usual b.s. in a highly engaging way. He has a knack for getting people to drop their guard while confronting them with unvarnished truth. And he zeroes in on what really matters to his viewers.

All that in only has 22 minutes. That is a feat in and of itself.

Finally, as an aside, what amazes me as a comedy writer and former TV performer is that he rarely has a bad writing or on-camera moment. That's pretty remarkable.

UPDATE, the link to the poll.