As I've been watching election coverage of Mormonism over the last few months, one news show consistently rises above the competition to provide coverage of my religion that is fair, balanced, and insightful. And no, it's not CNN.
It's The Daily Show with comedian Jon Stewart, one of the smartest and funniest political commentators of our time. Yes, I hear what you are saying: that Stewart's comedy schtick is not legitimate news. You're right, and he'd be the first to admit it. As he famously chastised Tucker Carlson of CNN, that's not the point of his program, for which the lead-in show is "puppets making crank calls." It's a comedy series. And yet it manages to be ten times more intelligent and thoughtful than what Carlson and others try to pass off to us as news.
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