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"Daily Show" host and media critic Jon Stewart lampoons cable's talking heads for bragging about their journalistic superiority to the Internet while reporting rumors directly from YouTube.“Daily Show” host and media critic Jon Stewart lampoons cable’s talking heads for bragging about their journalistic superiority to the Internet while reporting rumors directly from YouTube.
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