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Just finished taping The Daily Show. I was interviewed by Stewart himself. What stuck me was how the discussion about blogging was pretty straight and without any real mockery. I argue in BLOGWARS that 2008 is the year blogging has arrived—becoming part of journalism, entertainment media, and, of course politics. Well, I think one sign is that instead of making fun of bloggers as geeks and freaks Stewart himself stated that many talented people blog and that blogs were no longer a fringe phenomenon. That's a significant leap from the past. Lets spin back to when that was not so. Bloggers recall the March 2005 segment of The Daily Show that made fun of blogs and blogging via a satirical segment on "$ecret$ of New Journalism $ucce$$."* Jay Rosen, an NYU professor and one of the early academic proponents of blogging was interviewed by TDS correspondent Rob Corddry: it was one of those ambush affairs.

So it's lucky for me that blogs have some so far!

By the way, in person Stewart is gracious and really puts guests—like, say, nervous academics—at ease.

The Daily Show Blog picked up this post now shows the older segment (which was from 2005, not 2004 as I recalled): compare and contrast!

Modified: 07.10.08