CBS News also appears to be taking a turn to the right with the hiring of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief. Weiss is a “Trump-friendly figure,” MSNBC wrote recently. “CBS Evening News” anchor John Dickerson on Monday announced he is leaving the network at the end of the year.

The comedian, whose contract to host The Daily Show is up in December, said “we’re working on staying” during a conversation with New Yorker editor David Remnick at Sunday’s New Yorker Festival, when Remnick asked if the Comedy Central host was going to “sign another” contract.

Despite myriad changes at parent company Paramount Skydance, Jon Stewart is hoping to remain as the linchpin of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. The political comedian talked of his plans with The New Yorker‘s David Remnick during the legacy magazine’s festival in the city,

During the monologue, Stewart rolled clips of false statements made on Fox News, including Tucker Carlson’s claim that the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 were largely “peaceful” and “sightseers.”

ACSO 911 dispatcher Kayla Gillette Patten called the experience of being honored by Jon Stewart in Time Square "incredible."