Fake news trumps real news every day

John Stewart is on the cover of Rolling Stone. The article (only partial online) does a good job of capturing both his personality and why The Daily Show is such a success. Night after night, when the media drops the ball on fact-checking government spokespeople or makes news out of fluff stories, Stewart is there to play the damning clip ("uh oh!") or deflate the celebrity balloon ("yeah, because this is the big story of the month"). It's scary that people who get news from Comedy Central are better informed than those who watch the nightly news, but there it is... (are they getting more news, or just less disinformation? how could one say??)