anderson cooper on your network during katrina, shep smith on fox news during katrina, are two great examples of that cronkite tradition. i m glad you brought that up. i was going to say that, doing that and also during the oil spill, same thing. anderson did some very good work. other people, brian williams on nbc news did very good work during katrina. all those things were not talked about. they were forgotten in this article. there are people who are doing advocacy. we sat around thinking who got a bill passed. what stewart did was get the ball rolling. he didn t take it all the way, but he got the ball rolling to get this bill through congress. there are a few other examples of very specific activism like that. i would argue that rachel maddow on the issue of don t ask, don t tell has been influenceal. she did a good job on the oil spill as well. she did a very good job on the oil spill. this was also a spoof on the daily show a couple months back. we have to leave it ther