In ‘Daily Show’ role on 9/11 bill, echoes of Murrow

Jon Stewart, left, spoke with 9/11 first responders about their health problems on “The Daily Show” on Dec. 16.

The New York Times:

Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up as a personal cause?

And does that make that comedian, Jon Stewart — despite all his protestations that what he does has nothing to do with journalism — the modern-day equivalent of Edward R. Murrow?

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