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Twitter Loves TV, and the Feeling Is Mutual
Twitter has been making a persistent pitch to TV in recent months: Work with us, and we’ll boost your ratings. And here’s a TV network taking them up on the offer: Viacom’s Comedy Central, which is...
View ArticleJon Stewart Thinks Newt Gingrich Should Stay Off Twitter
Newt Gingrich announced his entry into the 2012 presidential race on Twitter this week. Jon Stewart does not approve–apparently he thinks the olds should not be on the Interwebs. (Alarming news for...
View ArticleJon Stewart on Rupert Murdoch, Wendi Deng, and The Pie. And, of Course, Fox...
Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems as if Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have gone quite … easy on News Corp.’s PhoneGate scandal, which seems like a story tailor made for them. Then again,...
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Fox Kicks Off the Great Web Video Piracy Boom of 2011
It’s perfectly logical for the TV networks to try to lock up their shows online. Except for the part about it not working. On Aug. 15, Fox will stop distributing its shows on Hulu and Fox.com a day...
View ArticleJon Stewart Points Out the Downside of TV's Twitter-Love
Excellent twofer from “The Daily Show” last night: Deflating Twitter and TV news in one three-minute segment. The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The...
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Netflix and Hulu Help Out Viacom, Too. Next Up: Apple? Amazon? Everyone?
Just like its corporate sibling CBS, Viacom posted an excellent quarter. And like CBS, Viacom says that digital dollars contributed to that performance, and promised more on the way. CEO Philippe...
View ArticleJon Stewart Has Too Many LinkedIn Invites, Too
Good news, LinkedIn! You led “The Daily Show” last night. Oh. Bad news, LinkedIn. You led “The Daily Show” last night.
View ArticleJon Stewart, Stephen Colbert Say Goodbye to Steve Jobs
Two cool tributes: Some subdued words from Jon Stewart, followed by an excerpt of Jobs’s famous Stanford speech; and a very funny montage from Stephen Colbert. Note that just like “real” media figures,...
View ArticleSteve Jobs Was an "Awesomely Emotional Person"
Perhaps you’ve heard: There’s a new Steve Jobs biography out. Author Walter Isaacson stopped by “The Daily Show” last night for what was basically a spoiler-free interview with Jon Stewart. Then again,...
View ArticleJon Stewart and Siri Debate Foxconn
Stories about Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturing giant that churns out products for Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and just about everyone else, aren’t new. But there’s been a burst of them in the past few...
View ArticleJon Stewart Solves the Homeless-Hotspot Debate
Turning homeless people into human hotspots at SXSW was a terrible idea. But one of the bizarre features of our media culture is that some people feel compelled to argue otherwise. Luckily, our media...
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HuffPo Co-Founder Ken Lerer's Stealthy Start-Up Aims at CNN, Fox
Ken Lerer helped build an Internet news powerhouse out of thin air. Now he wants to do it again. The Huffington Post co-founder, who sold his site to AOL a year ago, is working on another Web news...
View ArticleJon Stewart Has a Problem With Barack Obama's Email
Normally, Barack Obama gets praised for jumping on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Here, he gets dinged — particularly for the extra-casual email solicitations his campaign has been sending out....
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Viral Video: What Do You Get When You Mash Up Google Glass, FaceTagram and...
Once again, Jon Stewart nails it perfectly on this “Daily Show” segment — and all at once, too, with biting commentary on Google’s new augmented-reality glasses, the $1 billion Facebook just forked...
View ArticleJon Stewart Finds the Humor in the FCC Fining Google (Video)
This week, the FCC fined Google $25,000 for impeding its investigation of the company’s Wi-Fi data collection. As Jon Stewart put it last night on The Daily Show, “The fine is less than you would get...
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Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Stay Free on the Web, Thanks to a Hulu Loophole
If you want to catch up on old episodes of “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” on the shows’ own Web sites, you’re out of luck: Owner Viacom has pulled them down as a tactic in a fee fight...
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That Was Quick: Viacom Ends Web Ban for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
Jon Stewart came back from a two-week vacation last night and was in excellent form: There was a great recap on Mitt Romney’s Bain problem, a very funny interview with Louis C.K., and a scathing bit...
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Viacom's $5 Billion DirecTV Deal Keeps the Bundle Intact for Seven More Years
Remember when the DirecTV-Viacom standoff was going to be the first step of the beginning of the end of TV? Or at least the end of the bundle? Turns out you’re going to have to keep waiting for that....
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Viral Video: Pattinson and a Very Different Stewart Share a Ben & Jerry's Moment
The first post-Robsten Affairmaggedon interview by “Twilight” star Robert Pattinson was exactly as awkward as you might imagine it would be. As everyone in the world knows, Pattinson’s co-star and...
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How to Spend Saturday Night Without TV: Watch Jon Stewart and Jay-Z, Live on...
If you’re really going to cut the cord and make do without pay TV, you’re going to have give up certain stuff. Like lots of live programming. But not this weekend. At 8 pm ET, you can watch Jon Stewart...
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