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Stories that make us angry in a whole new way

Great article in the New York Times about Jon Stewart’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 “make us angry in a whole new way.” By lunchtime, Mr. Stewart (who functions as the show’s 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 — which can be intense, newspaper-deadlinelike affairs — before a 6 o’clock taping with a live studio audience. […]

Mr. Stewart has said he is looking forward to the end of the Bush administration “as a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal.”

Media darling

I went to the pre-opening of the new Apple store in Montreal today with a very special assistant-reporter: my nephew Alexis.

PR people should always let reporters bring kids along with them. They make much more natural photography subjects than adults. As soon as he sat at the kids’ station, the photographers were all over him and he got to model for a few Montreal newspapers and Web sites. He thought it was a pretty cool thing to do for his 10th birthday, which is tomorrow.

Bonne fête Alexis!

(Un merci spécial à oncle M., même s’il ne s’est pas pointé ;-)