The New Authenticity and Authority: What it Looks Like, How to Use It

Jon Stewart’s retirement from The Daily Show this week, accompanied by many tears and some cheers, is getting a lot of coverage around the web.

First, because the show is insanely popular.

But more than that, because the show demonstrates a real shift in what authority and authenticity look like in the 21st century.

In 2007, Stewart came in fourth in a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press as an admired journalist. (He tied, interestingly enough, with Brian Williams.)

The Daily Show is a very different creature from the …read more