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Celebrity is often its own reward. And Stewart wasn't getting much coverage when he didn't have a show, despite some very sincere and fervent lobbying efforts during his retirement period.
One of the more infuriating bits about liberal agitprop shows is how fucking devoid of agitprop they actually are. Yeah, guys like Stewart and Colbert and Oliver can go on rhetorical tirades about the Big Evil Business Thing. But when push comes to shove, what do they actually advocate? Noncompliance? Organized revolt? A general strike? Confrontations with abusive and cartelized law enforcement? Any kind of material self-defense or defense of one's friends and neighbors? Anything that might violate the latest round of right-wing prohibitions on health care or gender or speech?
Or do they just put on a "Rally to Restore Sanity" that tells people activism begins and ends with voting, in an election system that's increasingly threadbare?
The fact that Jon Stewart worked for Apple for a podcast and is now again on television working for some TV station shows that he has very little to offer in the way of anything meaningful. He had more than enough notoriety to start a podcast in his basement where he could say anything he wanted and get compelling guests. He has more than enough money to hire a crew and create a self-produced show online and get real viewership. People should really ask themselves why he is sticking with the big companies. It's because he likes the money and is an expert at getting the narrative out there. The Daily Show has always been lowest common denominator "subversion" that takes itself seriously enough to shame non-approved worldviews but not enough to be held accountable in any meaningful way. It's like if a teenager was a show.
Love or hate Tucker Carlson he is doing what Jon Stewart should have done years ago.
Tucker and Stewart are both just the dead end of modern entertainment journalism. Guys who haven't been relevant in nearly a decade showing back up on mediums with declining user bases to appeal to an audience that's getting older and grumpier and more out-of-touch than their Boomer-era peers from the early '00s.