Absurdity, thy name is NYT ...

From MediaBistro:

The New York Times picks up where we left off, and looks at “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart‘s efforts to help push the 9/11 first responders bill through Congress.

Along the way, it compares Stewart to two titans of broadcast news, Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow:

Though the scale of the impact of Mr. Stewart’s telecast on public policy may not measure up to the roles that Mr. Murrow and Mr. Cronkite played, Mr. Thompson said, the comparison is legitimate because the law almost surely would not have moved forward without him. “He so pithily articulated the argument that once it was made, it was really hard to do anything else,” Mr. Thompson said.