JON STEWART 'DAILY SHOW' IN SURPRISE AUDIENCE -- DROP

"Stewart...pulled 1,040,000 total viewers for month of September -- down 7% from August...."

1,040,000
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20 shows
=
52000 viewers each night?

Or is this "million total viewers" jargon for a million per night?

101 posted on 10/18/2004 6:42:21 AM PDT by maica (Vietnam Veterans Day is November 2)

I was one, I used to love the show, watched it daily, not anymore. Rarely if ever now. Basically, like others here said, he stopped being funny and balanced and started getting *really* partisan. It's annoying.

I guess I was one of the other five. While I always knew that Stewart was in the mainstream of New York Jewish intelligentsia, and therefor very liberal, he was also the funniest and smartest guy regularly on TV.

A year ago, he and his writers would to take pains to try to skewer both sides. Unfortunately they have become too aware of the fact that they are the major source of news for a huge voter demographic. That combined with their zealous conviction that Bush is a basically an instrument of evil have moved them away from their core competency of smart-assed slacker comedy.

Their mission now is to proselytize their anti-Bush message in a desperate effort to "save" America. Their fake news show has devolved into a fake comedy show whose real mission is to spew strident propaganda dressed as comedy. About the only thing that makes me laugh now are some of the Back in Black segments.

102 posted on 10/18/2004 7:05:56 AM PDT by Jeff F

To: RealFeminist

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103 posted on 10/18/2004 9:33:42 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Real gun control is - all shots inside the ten ring)

Am I the only one who read the first sentence of the article on Drudge? It says that he is announcing next week that he plans to support Kerry. No more wishy-washy "am I a liberal or not?" stuff.

Of course his viewership will decline in light of that.

104 posted on 10/18/2004 10:02:48 AM PDT by serpentineshel

Dunno I just read the article on Drudge . My guess if he keeps it up they will be counting by the dozens.

105 posted on 10/18/2004 11:12:53 AM PDT by RedMonqey (Keep RIGHT or get LEFT behind!!)

To: serpentineshel

If you caught him on cnn, he outright claimed to be the "buttboy" for Kerry

Yeeeeech!

106 posted on 10/18/2004 11:14:22 AM PDT by RedMonqey (Keep RIGHT or get LEFT behind!!)

To: NotchJohnson

Actually I agree regarding Kilbourn. He's no great talent, but the show was more even-handed in who was lampooned during his tenure.

107 posted on 10/18/2004 11:24:34 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG

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