Why Broadcast Journalism Is Flirting With Jon Stewart

How would Stewart perform given a week for interview prep and a charge to inform? I’d wager he’d do better than any Meet the Press host. But that is a low bar. It’s too early to fairly judge Chuck Todd, who has recently taken over the program, but his predecessor, David Gregory, was true to the form of the typical Sunday morning show: He was complicit in political theater, a deferential broadcaster asking easy or faux-tough questions on matters of fleeting importance. Politicians responded by regurgitating banal talking points.