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Big Bird, Bill Simmons, Jon Stewart: HBO Keeps Stockpiling Talent
Thursday, November 5, 2015 - 8:07am | 601Read More...HBO has signed comedian Jon Stewart to a four-year digital content deal. Stewart is just the latest in a list of big-name additions by the network. HBO is fighting with a batch of new competitors in the exploding business of digital and mobile video. HBO announced this week that the...
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10 Things Jon Stewart Thinks About Media, Politics And Change
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 12:52pm | 1202Read More...New York Magazine writer Chris Smith recently chatted with Jon Stewart about media, politics and change. Stewart had quite a bit to say. On Satire's Relationship With Journalism: “I think we use it to the best of its ability but recognizing its limitations. You know, satire isn...
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Two NYSE Executives to Leave at the End of 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 3:57pm | 276Read More...The New York Stock Exchange and Larry Leibowitz are set to part ways, according to The New York Post. Chief operating officer Larry Leibowitz, brother of Daily Show host Jon Stewart, will be leaving the exchange at the end of 2013. The New York Stock Exchange is owned by its parent company, NYSE...
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Jon Stewart On The Media's Version Of Ron Paul; Invisible Man
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 5:53pm | 70Read More...You know the media bias against the true tea party constitutional candidate (Ron Paul) is beyond the pale when Jon Stewart is calling them out for ‘ignoring' the godfather of the tea party movement and wondering ‘how did libertarian Ron Paul become ‘the 13th floor in a hotel?' Love Ron Paul or...
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Jon Stewart Wants To Know Why Media Is Ignoring Ron Paul
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 1:26pm | 189Read More...This weekend at the Ames Straw Poll, Michele Bachmann beat out Ron Paul by a mere 152 votes. This "accomplishment" has appeared to push Bachmann into "top tier" status according to media pundits, but objectively speaking, it was hardly impressive. Consider that the poll was held in Bachmann's...
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Jon Stewart Thrilled By iPhone Verizon Announcement, Pokes Fun At AT&T
Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 12:56pm | 297Read More...“Folks, you may have noticed a certain something about me tonight,” The Daily Show host Jon Stewart said Tuesday night. “A spring in my step, a certain twinkle in…let's go with my pants. “Here's why: for the last three or four years, those of us in the iPhone community have sacrificed one thing for...
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Jon Stewart: Sad And Frustrated By Obama
Friday, September 24, 2010 - 9:46am | 212Read More...Jon Stewart is among the league of frustrated supporters of President Obama, according to CNN. Jon Stewart appeared on Fox News' The Bill O'Reilly show Wednesday and said he thought Obama would do a better job when he voted for him in the 2008 presidential election. "I think people feel a...
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Why Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Make Viacom So Interesting (VIA)
Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 12:07pm | 423Read More...Comedy Central, owned by MTV Networks, has applied for a permit to hold a rally led by hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert at the Washington Monument, the National Park Service confirmed. On September 16, Stewart announced "The Rally To Restore Sanity" on "The Daily Show," while Colbert announced...
