Breakfast with Jon Stewart

Sometime last week Comedy Central invited a very short list of prominent newspeople (mostly print media, but a smattering of TV and Internet folk) to sit down with Jon Stewart and have an informal breakfast/chat at the ungodly (by bloggers' standards) hour of 8:30 am. By a quarter till nine, the cozy conference room on the University of Denver's campus -- where The Daily Show is filming all this week -- was stuffed full with well-tailored suits, smart blouses and skirts, just-punchy-enough suspenders and confidence-inspiring haircuts, all worn by people who strolled comfortably about the room greeting each other casually by their first names, joking, laughing, eating bagels and sausage. These people represented The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, The Associated Press and some other heavy-hitter news organizations that I really have no business not noting.

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