If you are an avid viewer of The Daily Show (if you're not, you should be), then you will have noticed the new set that was unvelied this past week. Well, some are theorizing that the new set is also indicative of Stewart's taking the show in a more focussed, possibly harder hitting, direction.
This from Fish Bowl NY:
""The Daily Show" continues to be a must-watch. Why? Because Jon Stewart has the clean-up advantage, where he can take the day's Zeitgeist and distill it into the message he wants to send. And make no mistake, he wants to send a message. Somewhere along the way it looks like Stewart got inspired - the exchange with Bernard Goldberg best shows that, where he stayed stubbornly on point (that Goldberg went after the wrong people, and lets the the people with real power (cough certain members of the Right cough) get of scot free). The fact that Stewart aired the full exchange with Goldberg, pre-empting a pretaped sure-to-get-laughs segment centered on the words "vaginal cream," says something about what he wants to do with his platform. He has the audience, he's prepared to use it. Perhaps that's what the new set means; no couch for you, don't get too comfortable, I'm asking the questions here."
For my money, The Daily Show is the only news show out there worth watching. It is ironic that if you want actual news then you have to go to a program that claims to be "fake news".
Posted by Paul Hina at July 16, 2005 09:40 AM