{"id":248,"date":"2004-10-24T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-24T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danflies.wordpress.com\/2004\/10\/24\/nytimes-week-in-review-jon-stewart-gets-serious"},"modified":"2004-10-24T00:18:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-24T06:18:00","slug":"nytimes-week-in-review-jon-stewart-gets-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/nytimes-week-in-review-jon-stewart-gets-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes > Week in Review > Jon Stewart Gets Serious:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/24\/weekinreview\/24cave.html?8hpib=&amp;pagewanted=print&amp;position=\">The New York Times &gt; Week in Review &gt; Jon Stewart Gets Serious: If You Interview Kissinger, Are You Still a Comedian?<\/a>: &#8220;S Jon Stewart being coy?<\/p>\n<p>In a recent dust-up with Tucker Carlson on CNN&#8217;s &#8216;Crossfire,&#8217; Mr. Stewart defended a soft interview he conducted with John Kerry. He wasn&#8217;t a commentator on CNN, like Mr. Carlson, he said, but a host on &#8216;The Daily Show,&#8217; which is on Comedy Central.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Whether he likes it or not, Mr. Stewart&#8217;s mix of news and satire has become so successful that the comedian is suddenly being criticized for not questioning his guests with Tim Russert-like intensity. (It has been that kind of campaign.)&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times &gt; Week in Review &gt; Jon Stewart Gets Serious: If You Interview Kissinger, Are You Still a Comedian?: &#8220;S Jon Stewart being coy? In a recent dust-up with Tucker Carlson on CNN&#8217;s &#8216;Crossfire,&#8217; Mr. Stewart defended a soft interview he conducted with John Kerry. He wasn&#8217;t a commentator on CNN, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}