On Thursday night 10 presidential candidates will spill onto a stage in Cleveland, and the already crowded Republican primary race will begin in earnest with the first day of debates, live on Fox News. The perfect Jon Stewart moment. But Stewart won?t be around to skewer the participants. A couple of hours earlier, on the Far West Side of Manhattan, he will have already taped his final show. The timing is coincidental, but meaningful: Stewart has spent his career as host of the ?The Daily Show? on Comedy Central having a field day with politicians (many of them Republican), outlandish billionaires (including Donald Trump) and cable news stations (Fox News in particular).
Since Stewart started hosting ?The Daily Show? 16 years ago, the country?s trust in both the news media and the government has plummeted. Stewart?s brand of fake news thrived in that vacuum, and turned him into one of the nation?s most bracing cultural, political and media critics.
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