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Jon Stewart

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Jon Stewart

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Jon Stewart is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 22, 2022 and October 12, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “I’m not sure either of them is as powerful as Jon Stewart”; “How Jon Stewart Made Tucker Carlson”. It most often appears alongside Georgism, Substack, Tucker Carlson.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: September 22, 2022
  • Last seen: October 12, 2022

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Highlights From The Comments On Billionaire Replaceability
September 22, 2022 · Original source
And I’m not sure either of them is as powerful as Jon Stewart, Tucker Carlson, Thomas Piketty, Martin Luther King, Greta Thunberg, George Clooney, Ezra Klein, or any of hundreds of other people. Heck, I’m not sure they’re as powerful as the average state-level teachers’ union official. I think if you weren’t already predisposed to hate billionaires because of socialism, you would freak out about the level of power held by all those people before you started freaking out about Bill Gates or someone.
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October 12, 2022 · Original source
9: How Jon Stewart Made Tucker Carlson. Good but hard to summarize. The news used to be staid, neutral, and formulaic, Jon Stewart discovered that a news show could get more viewers by pitching itself as the antidote to the news rather than the news itself, and others (like Tucker Carlson) took that insight in unexpected directions. Also offers an unexpected possible explanation for polarization: there were some regulations and business incentives pushing the news in the direction of being boring until about 1990, but not so much afterwards.
Inline links: How Jon Stewart Made Tucker Carlson