TELEVISION. Cont'd.

And more people are going on the Internet, Stewart said. "As you're trying to find porn, it's kind of hard to avoid news." Both Stewart and the evening news anchors essentially have the same goal: to take the daily flood of news and distill it for a viewer. Brokaw does it seriously, Stewart looks for laughs. Which one is a 21-year-old most likely to watch? In Capus' Rockefeller Center office, the "Nightly News" staff often gathers after its morning news meeting to watch the 10 a.m. rerun of the previous night's "The Daily Show." Stewart, in turn, knows their world intimately. In conversation, he drops the name of "The Note," ABC News' Web site for political junkies. NBC invited Stewart to give commentary after President Bush's State of the Union address in January. CBS' evening news ran a weekly segment during the 2000 campaign on what comedians were saying, and it's returning this year. The danger, one Capus and Murphy readily recognize, lies in network news programs that overreact to the comedy shows' growing influence by obviously groping for ways to connect with young people. Stewart knows when he sees a newsmagazine correspondent in a leather jacket standing on a dark street to introduce a story about washing machines that he has a joke that needs no punch line." I shudder to think of Dan Rather up there trying to riff like Jon Stewart," said Rob Vincent, 26, an Oklahoma City native attending law school in New York. "That seems a little scary to me." His friend, 25-year-old law student Jason Rogers of Phoenix, agreed." It would alienate their core audience - which is my parents and grandparents," he said.

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