Jon Stewart: “Frequently when we’re away on vacation we hear of distressing news… so when I came back to work today, I was so excited to look under my pillow and see what the news fairy had left me and I was kinda disappointed to find a golf club and some broken glass, and this two idiots…” And so the clip begins.

Also, “Daily Show” correspondent Aasif Mandvi on his invitation to the State Department lunch, not dinner. “I got to meet Kal Penn… again.”

And did you know Jason Jones was there? “I don’t need invitations, I’m a white guy with a tux and a hot blonde wife,” the “Daily Show” correspondent ribbed.

There’s even a special appearance by new senior news correspondent Edward R. Brokaw-Amanpour.

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Here’s what we’re reading this Friday A.M….

NEWSPAPERS | TV | MAGAZINE | NEWS NOTES | ONLINE

NEWSPAPERS

NYTimes talks to Jason Jones, who did a Daily Show piece on The Times on Wednesday

Possible Boston Globe buyers emerge but don’t hold your breath

TV

Chinese state TV CCTV revamps its main news show

PBS makes more cuts to close $3.4M budget deficit

Fox News spends little time in Wednesday’s primetime on Holocaust Museum shooting

MAGAZINES

You won’t hear a tweet out of John Meacham. Despite “new” Newsweek, Meacham’s still not down with the new media

Was shooter von Brunn going to target the Weekly Standard

NEWS NOTES

1.75 Million Americans didn’t get the memo about the DTV transition the first or second time yet still allowed to vote.

ONLINE

Greatest change in media not the Internet, social media, search engines, or iPhones.

Will Twitter implode under weight of its own hype?

HAT TIPS: Daniel Lippman, Politico, C-SPAN, Clickz, B&C, paidcontent.org

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