'The Daily Show' Visits The New York Times

'Daily Show' correspondent Jason Jones

OK, so when "The Daily Show" correspondent Jason Jones visited The New York Times this week, it was the wiseass from the funny TV show who emerged unscathed.

A few highlights:

• Touring the Times newsroom with one of the paper's flacks, Jones picks up a copy of the paper and asks, "You know who'd love this? My grandma."
• Interviewing Assistant Managing Editor Rick Berke, Jones asks, "Why is aged news better than real news?" Pressing his point, Jones points to the paper and challenges Berke to "give me one thing in there that happened today."
• "What's black and white and red all over?" Jones asks Executive Editor Bill Keller.

  "A newspaper," Keller responds.

  "No, your balance sheets," Jones responds. (To his credit, Keller laughs.)

Keller does manage to get a few jabs in against the blogs and aggregators that make money off Times content. "The last time I was in Baghdad I didn't see a Huffington Post bureau or a Google bureau or a Drudge Report bureau there," he says.

You can see the video and read a Times interview with Jones here.

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