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Quinel Huggins								September 20, 2012 Ms. Lisabeth										 English DAILY INTERVIEW Whenever I feeling like seeing what happen in the day’s events across the country the news would be the first place to go. I sat and watched CNN for over an hour to see the same the boring events happening and watch newscasters put allow politicians to divide people not taking any sides and just letting people say whatever they want. Newscasters usually want to take the neutral position and tone so it makes them look like fair and try not to anger who wants to disagree with them and just repeat talking points instead of facts. I couldn’t stand it so I decided I needed a new play to get my information from. I needed to watch a show that informed without making me want to throw my TV into a brick wall. Flipping through channel I stumbled onto to another one of those late night comedy shows that was on comedy central. What I saw on TV was one of the greatest shows I had ever seen. It was a perfect mixture of intelligent satire and informative news. The Daily Show with John Stewart was the show that blew my mind. For the first time I saw someone take a strong position while both being fair and funny. Even when he was reporting on ideas I had major issues about I was still holding my stomach in laugher. To get to know him more and his motivation I decided to interview John Stewart. Several frustrating calls, a long trip to New York and 3 hours of gridlock traffic later and I was sitting in front of a man who is a pioneer in media. After a few minutes of friendly conversation I asked him what is it that you think that sets you apart from the rest of the media. He responded “I like to think that give for the most part the same news others channels give, but I always come from an angle to make be understand how absurd their arguments and situations are sometimes.” “Next question Mr. Stewart, working in television has to be very stressful, tell me about those moments where you want to explode. He smiled and chuckled a little. “I remember once there was this intern that also wanted to work here because she loved comedy and what we are doing and was a huge fan. We gave her a jobs doing basic mindless intern things, getting coffee delivering papers. I don’t want be mean but she wasn’t working with a full deck of cards. I remember at times she would just do stupid things like taking animals off the streets and bringing in and feeding them. We would have one or two cats coming by then there were four or five then there would be like fifteen hanging outside the door. It got very crazy very quickly, at a point they started coming inside the building. It wasn’t just that one thing either she would clear off people desk looking for things. Stuff would be all over the place and it would be a mess its like she had no common sense. The thing that pushed me over the line was the day she decided that she wanted to be pain for her work. Remember this in an unpaid intern who says this. She literally walked up to me and told me I have been working here for 6 months now and haven’t received a single check in the snobbiest stuck up voice ever. The words I said to her are thing that I shouldn’t repeat but basically I told her how everybody felt about her and it wasn’t pretty. People were scared to even approach me for a couple of days.”

I asked for my next question “In all the years you worked on the Daily Show when did t really pay off for you. I already had in my mind how I would write about his next response. The daily show won two Peabody awards or talk about the Grammy the show won but I got an answer I was not expecting. He leaned backed in the chair squinted his eyes and looked up at the ceiling. “Hmmm, it had to be the day I met this young man named Josh. He told me his parent drilled stories about how democrats are evil and anyone who didn’t agree was Un-American and yada yada yada. So Josh told me that one that he heard something on Fox News about something called the daily show. After watching the first episode he was pissed off and thought I was a liar. Then after watching another he decided to check up on everything I said on the internet. He told me next that after fact checking and thinking over and over about all these things his parents told him he came to the conclusion they were very wrong. Josh came with his question to his parents with these facts and they just yelled and screamed about it and from that moment he realized they had no idea what they talk about and he would think for himself and. It’s not that he challenged his parents or he agreed with some my views but that he could think for himself. That was the moment where I said to myself I am making a difference. The daily show comes on week day at 11/10Pacific time. It is a much watch show. As I was writing this I realized how difficult it was to write in the voice of someone else. I have to try and take out all the different styles of writing I picked up and change it so that he seems like someone else. Also learn from this assignment the way people talk and the way people write are much different and if I don’t change the writing to reflect someone speaking then t sounds very bland and boring reading it.