The more we got to meet people [in the media], it was—‘Oh! You’re f***ing retarded! You don’t care!’ The pettiness of it, the strange lack of passion for any kind of moral or editorial authority, always struck me as weird. We felt like, we’re serious people doing an unserious thing, and they’re unserious people doing a very serious thing.
From “America is a Joke,” NYMag’s excellent profile piece on Jon Stewart and his guidance of the Daily Show into a political and cultural powerhouse. Absolutely love Stewart and think he’s particularly right on in a lot of things he says about the media.
