Jon Stewart

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that second scene where the White House calls you and castigates you is the part that I found so fascinating because it speaks to the bargain that journalists and news organizations have made with power, that access is only granted conditionally.

And those conditions negate

the entire power of what good journalism is.

No, I know.

I'm familiar with that cough.

You better be on the program.

Are you on the program, Amy?

There's a yoga program?

Get on that program.

But what we have, Amy, is...

the theater of a democracy.

It's, it's a show.

I, you know, I, I can't tell you how often I watch these, you know, the daily press briefing where they put on a play for the, the American audience and Caroline Levitt or whoever's in that position, whether it was Mike McCurry and in those days or everything comes out and lies pretty much the whole time.