does it worry you that news itself has become a reflection of one's ideological perspective? >> i think people when they watch the news, because the news is a digest, someone else is choosing what is news and how those very items will be presented, i think more and more people just don't believe what they hear on the news. when the government says to you the economic figures are coming out stronger for january. there's going to be more jobs. we're going to make a comeback. people do not want to hear that. they do not want to hear that. they would rather hear jon stewart make jokes about that. >> the cynicism that you are describing, the skepticism, the hesitancy to believe certainly official sources of information and i think jon stewart preys upon that to great effect says something about the relationship between our citizenry and our government these days which is where we are beginning to distrust even a government under barack obama. has he begun to reclaim the integrity of government in your mind? >> i think the fact that people have a tougher time parodying obama in that kind of a cynical class in that jon stewart class because they have a tougher time. the first thing you notice when