Editing Jon Stewart (section)

==== Criticism of CNBC ====
{{Main |Jon Stewart–Jim Cramer conflict}}
Stewart again became a [[Viral phenomenon|viral internet phenomenon]] following a March 4, 2009, ''The Daily Show'' sequence. CNBC canceled [[Rick Santelli]]'s scheduled appearance on ''The Daily Show'' that day, so the show ran a short segment showing CNBC giving poor investment advice.<ref>{{cite news |last=Linkins |first=Jason |title=Jon Stewart Eviscerates CNBC, Santelli On Daily Show |work=[[The Huffington Post]] |date=March 5, 2009 |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/05/jon-stewart-eviscerates-c_n_172057.html |access-date=March 5, 2009 |archive-date=March 5, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305151739/http://www.huffingtonpost.com//2009//03//05//jon-stewart-eviscerates-c_n_172057.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Subsequent media coverage of exchanges between Stewart and [[Jim Cramer]], who had been featured heavily in the original segment, led to a highly anticipated face-to-face confrontation on ''The Daily Show''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gold |first=Matea |title=Exclusive: Jim Cramer set to appear on ''The Daily Show'' Thursday |newspaper=[[The Los Angeles Times]] |date=March 10, 2009 |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/03/exclusive-jim-c.html |access-date=March 10, 2009 |archive-date=March 12, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312002731/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/03/exclusive-jim-c.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The episode received much media attention and became the second most-viewed episode of ''The Daily Show'', trailing only the 2009 Inauguration Day episode. It had 2.3&nbsp;million total viewers, and the next day, the show's website saw its highest day of traffic in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lafayette |first=Jon |title=Stewart-Cramer Confrontation Draws 'Daily's' Second-Biggest Audience of '09 |website=TVWeek.com |date=March 13, 2009 |url=http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/03/stewartcramer_confrontation_dr.php |access-date=March 14, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090315003518/http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/03/stewartcramer_confrontation_dr.php |archive-date=March 15, 2009}}</ref> Although Cramer acknowledged on the show that some of Stewart's criticisms of CNBC were valid and that the network could "do better", he later said on ''[[Today (U.S. TV program)|The Today Show]]'' that Stewart's criticism of the media was "naïve and misleading".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Calderon |first=Michael |title=Cramer slams Stewart: 'naive and misleading' |url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0309/Cramer_slams_Stewart_naive_and_misleading.html |website=[[Politico]] |date=March 19, 2009 |access-date=March 20, 2009 |archive-date=March 22, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322095640/http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0309/Cramer_slams_Stewart_naive_and_misleading.html |url-status=live}}</ref>