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[Rteacher]

http://www.avclub.com/article/jon-stewart-says-hes-leaving-daily-show-215070

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/02/jon-stewart-leaving-the-daily-show-202418.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/arts/television/jon-stewart-leaving-daily-show.html?_r=0

http://time.com/3704244/jon-stewart-the-daily-show-leaving/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/02/10/jon-stewart-leaving-the-daily-show-this-year/

[Rteacher]

Stewart made the announcement at the end of his show yesterday ... http://news.yahoo.com/jon-stewarts-exit-phony-newsman-loss-real-news-060821562.html

[Died By Bear]

The Overhyped reaction to John Stewart leaving the daily show


Stewart largely appeals to wealthy and well-educated liberals — a small slice of the overall news audience.

According to a 2012 Pew Research Center study, 14 percent of Stewart’s audience self-identified as conservative and 43 percent as liberal. Pew found that, overall, the news audience was 35 percent conservative and 22 percent liberal. In fact, “The Daily Show,” The New York Times and The New Yorker were the only media outlets outside of MSNBC for which a plurality of the audience self-identified as liberal.

Pew also found that just 25 percent of all news consumers had at least a college degree, but “The Daily Show” was the only television news show for which more than 40 percent of the viewers had at least a college education. Most readers of The Times and The New Yorker also had one.

About 40 percent of the audiences of all three — “The Daily Show,” The Times and The New Yorker — made more than $75,000 a year, according to Pew, compared with 26 percent of all news consumers.

Stewart, simply put, has been speaking to only a small group of people. You can see this in his television ratings. While it may shock some, the vast majority of Americans didn’t watch Stewart. Indeed, the vast majority of late-night viewers didn’t watch him. Last month, “The Daily Show” pulled in about 1.15 to 1.3 million viewers daily. Even if you include the roughly 250,000 viewers that, on average, watch “The Daily Show” on its website, Stewart’s audience is, at best, an average of about 1.5 million. According to Nielsen NNTV data, “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and Jimmy Fallon’s “The Tonight Show” were seen by an average of 2.7 and 3.7 million people, respectively, in the final quarter of 2014.

Of course, Stewart has the tougher game of playing on cable. That, however, cannot fully explain why Stewart’s ratings have been down over the past few years.

[Plain Meaning]

He is leaving in a year.

That's the length of a teaching contract in Korea.

[Rteacher]

I think his contract is up in September, but he said it could be extended to next July, which would be getting close to when the Presidential election race starts heating up. Ideally they would have a good replacement - or two - by then.

Among those who have been suggested are Samantha Bee, Russell Brand, John Fugelsang, Stephanie Miller, and Lewis Black.

Here's a panel discussion about it by The Young Turks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAN1Y9jayI

[Deja]

[Titus]

I really enjoyed how the Viacom guy told us to hate the Fox guy. It made me feel so smart.

[Rteacher]