The Minority Report

I saw both interviews and I have to tell ya…I would rather watch him and Colbert than anything on MSNBC.

“For two months, I watched and listened to him interact with dozens of reporters—in conference calls, press breakfasts, live TV appearances from the White House—and I have interviewed him half a dozen times this year. His exchange with Stewart was the first time I saw him at a loss. After Stewart left the room, Orszag slumped on a couch and replayed the conversation.”

In addition to stymieing the government official in charge of the budget in ways that the mainstream media had not been able to, Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, recently generated enough of an outcry for a host on a legitimate news channel to appear, tail firmly placed between legs, on The Daily Show to explain for his mistakes. Stewart’s interview of Jim Cramer of CNBC was substantive enough for White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to remark, “I thought somebody asked a lot of tough questions.” In 2004, during an appearance on CNN’s Crossfire, Stewart remarked of the political talk show, “It’s not so much bad as it’s hurting America.” Within a few months the long running show had been cancelled with a CNN executive saying, “I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart’s overall premise.”
The Daily Show as Legitimate Journalism « In One Ear… Out the Other

That is the hat tip, the entire article is on The New Yorker, here.