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    By Jonathan Berr

    | 3:00PM 11/02/2010
    At least in part due to comments made by Jon Stewart at this weekend's Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann announced he was suspending his show's well-known "Worst Person in the World" segment indefinitely.

    By David Schepp

    | 8:30AM 10/04/2010
    If the recession and subsequent high employment proves anything, it's this: The scarcity of jobs hasn't made workers any smarter. Just-fired CNN anchor Rick Sanchez is a good example. Unfortunately, he's hardly the only one.

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 9:05PM 7/07/2010
    The women's blog Jezebel says The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is a bad workplace for women. In fact, by the admittedly low standards of late-night TV comedy, it may be one of the more female-friendly employers.

    By Jonathan Berr

    | 6:30PM 4/26/2010
    Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central's Daily Show, has been not-so-quietly waging war with Fox News for years -- and recently he's been turning up the heat.

    By Barbara Hernandez

    | 2:45PM 3/04/2010
    Daily Show and Colbert Report viewers, take note: Next week, company Viacom will be taking off Comedy Central free programming like "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" from video site Hulu.com. Viacom said it wasn't happy with the revenue stream on the popular site that captures about 44...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 4:45PM 11/19/2009
    Every news organization makes mistakes. But when Fox News makes mistakes, they seem to tilt in a suspiciously consistent direction, favoring Republicans and conservatives over Democrats and liberals. It happened again Wednesday, when host Gregg Jarrett, introducing a segment on Happening Now,...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 2:30PM 6/11/2009
    It's losing tens of millions of dollars. It's under constant attack by conservatives. It's hobbled by a sister paper whose employees would rather go down with the ship than take a pay cut. How could things get any worse at The New York Times? How about a skewering by The Daily Show? "Did you know...

    By Joseph Lazzaro

    | 5:30PM 4/15/2009
    CNBC has turned 20, and we would be remiss if we didn't take a moment to mark the occasion by evaluating the network's impact on the financial world. First, a little surprise: The primary strength of CNBC is, arguably, not what you may think. Most people would probably cite CNBC's ability to...

    By Tim Catts

    | 10:30AM 3/17/2009
    Jon Stewart's battle with CNBC began the night Rick Santelli, who had just called for "another tea party" to protest President Obama's proposed homeowner assistance program, backed out of an appearance on the Daily Show. Can Stewart inspire his own uprising? Hoping to build a movement out of...

    By Bruce Watson

    | 11:30AM 3/13/2009
    After days of fevered promotion, Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer finally met face-to-face on The Daily Show on Thursday night. Given that Cramer began apologizing within minutes of appearing on the show, the question of who won or lost is pretty much moot. What is interesting, however, is what the...