The A.V. Club has an interview up with the hilarious Stephen Colbert. I don't like The Daily Show as much as others do (despite how leftist it is supposed to be, I really hate how much Jon Stewart kisses ass with some of his more deplorable guests like Rick Santorum) but Colbert is really amusing and is always a thoughtful and interesting interview.
If you haven't seen Jon Stewart on Crossfire yesterday you can read about it or you can view it.
It was pretty great to come home from an amazing night with Jill Walker and most of GTA and get to see this. Jon Stewart is really the only honest voice in the mainstream media right now. It is pretty sad that the mainstream's best news source is a show that follows one which stars puppets making crank calls.
Usual Media Nonsense
But beyond that, we learn little. In essence, Egan's piece is just another of those infamous swing voter stories we've regularly whacked for singling out one demographic group and suggesting that, as Egan quotes a source in concluding his story, "They are the biggest pool of untapped potential voters, and they are easy to influence." This is a classic case of a reporter delivering four of the five W's -- who, what, where, and when -- but forgetting number five (WHY?), which is the story behind the story. Why, assuming Egan is correct, are young people more engaged this year? Why is that unusual? If they're so cynical, why would they be "easy to influence"? And why do so many get their news from places like "The Daily Show"? There's a story here somewhere inside Egan's story. We just wish he had let it out.