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The Nose Weeps at the Loss of Jon Stewart

Chad J. McNeeley
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U.S. Navy
Jon Stewart performs at the Stand Up for Heroes dinner at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. in 2011.

Elizabeth Warren summed it up in a tweet:

On the next Nose, is there any way we can spin the departure of our favorite truth teller as a good thing?

It might be pretty tough. 

How do we put this in context at the end of a terrible week for the news industry, with Brian Williams being suspended from NBC News for six months, and the death of CBS News correspondent Bob Simon?

Comment below, email Colin@wnpr.org, or tweet @wnprcolin.

GUESTS:

  • Jim Chapdelaine is an Emmy Award-winning musician, producer, composer, and recording engineer
  • Theresa Cramer is a writer and the editor of E-Content Magazine, where she covers the world of digital media
  • Irene Papoulis teaches in the Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric at Trinity College

Betsy Kaplan and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.

Colin McEnroe is a radio host, newspaper columnist, magazine writer, author, playwright, lecturer, moderator, college instructor and occasional singer. Colin can be reached at colin@ctpublic.org.

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