{"id":1813,"date":"2008-08-19T15:54:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T20:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/19\/stories-that-make-us-angry-in-a-whole-new-way\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T21:05:21","slug":"stories-that-make-us-angry-in-a-whole-new-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/19\/stories-that-make-us-angry-in-a-whole-new-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories that make us angry in a whole new way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/17\/arts\/television\/17kaku.html?_r=1&#038;sq=Michiko%20Kakutani&#038;st=cse&#038;scp=2&#038;pagewanted=all&#038;oref=slogin\">in the New York Times<\/a> about Jon Stewart&rsquo;s <em>Daily Show<\/em> and its writing process:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe writers work throughout the morning on deadline pieces spawned by breaking news, as well as longer-term projects, trying to find, as Josh Lieb, a co-executive producer of the show, put it, stories that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153make us angry in a whole new way.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d By lunchtime, Mr. Stewart (who functions as the show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s managing editor and says he thinks of hosting as almost an afterthought) has begun reviewing headline jokes. By 3 p.m. a script is in; at 4:15, Mr. Stewart and the crew rehearse that script, along with assembled graphics, sound bites and montages. There is an hour or so for rewrites \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which can be intense, newspaper-deadlinelike affairs \u00e2\u20ac\u201d before a 6 o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122clock taping with a live studio audience. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Stewart has said he is looking forward to the end of the Bush administration \u00e2\u20ac\u0153as a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great article in the New York Times about Jon Stewart&rsquo;s Daily Show and its writing process: The writers work throughout the morning on deadline pieces spawned by breaking news, as well as longer-term projects, trying to find, as Josh Lieb, a co-executive producer of the show, put it, stories that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153make us angry in a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/19\/stories-that-make-us-angry-in-a-whole-new-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stories that make us angry in a whole new way<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}