possibly missing the point

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The Boston Phoenix chimes in on the Jon Stewart Crossfire appearance:

Stewart's Daily Show does enormous numbers for cable; a recent appearance by Bill Clinton drew a reported 1.9 million viewers. The crew has a bestselling book, America (The Book). Stewart's on the cover of Rolling Stone. By contrast, Crossfire is a dying show based on a dying paradigm. (At least I'd like to think so, although Fox's detestable Hannity & Colmes would seem to suggest otherwise.)

Now, I don't have access to any US TV channels except Discovery and CNBC Europe, so I can't verify if it is a dying paradigm, but everything Stewart had to say and indeed a lot of what I've read of American media (and the never-ending stream of lightly rewritten Americanisms that show up on Sky News, Sky One, MTV, and even our domestic channels) seems to indicate the contrary.