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I wonder if anyone else noticed this week that Walter Cronkite’s death coincided with The Huffington Post reporting that Jon Stewart is now America’s most trusted newsman. A comedian! How far we’ve come. Now we get the news in real time all day long, so the job of a reporter is done through facebook status updates, twitters, blogs, ireports, and youtube. As little as ten years ago we valued a professional “objective” and humorless voice to deliver us the nightly news; now we want an entertaining DJ who can take the things we already know and do something creative with it. Is that so bad? No, not at all. It’s an evolution of information handling. Shakespeare’s fools spoke the truth, and in their gut humans have always known that the person most likely to be telling the truth is also making you laugh. That’s Killin’ It.