Andrew Golis

Is it a silly idea? yes.

Would it work? absolutely not.

Would he do it? never.

And yes, I’m drawn to, nay, inspired by the idea. Jon Stewart should be the next anchor of CBS News. I know what you’re thinking, “why am I reading this stupid blog?”, but seriously, this is not a joke. It’s so much not a joke that the head of CBS, Les Moonves, wouldn’t rule it out:

Nearly 30 million people watch the evening news on one of the three networks on most nights, but many of them are older. Young people tend to get their news in bits and pieces, from the Internet and cable, he said.

“We have to try and reinvent that,” he said. “One of the ways we’re looking at is making it younger and more relevant, something that younger people can relate to as opposed to that guy preaching from the mountaintop about what we should and should not watch.”

Asked twice, Moonves wouldn’t rule out a role on the evening news for Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart, whose “The Daily Show” skewers politicians and the news media each night.

Because both Comedy Central and CBS are owned by Viacom, I bet they could work out the contract issues (Stewart is signed on to the Daily Show through 2008). I knew big corporations that own everything were good for something!

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