(Taken from from The New York Times article by Bill Carter on CNN cancelling Crossfire and "ending its relationship" with Tucker Carlson)
Mr. Klein specifically cited the criticism that the comedian Jon Stewart leveled at "Crossfire" when he was a guest on the program during the presidential campaign. Mr. Stewart said that ranting partisan political shows on cable were "hurting America."
Mr. Klein said last night, "I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart's overall premise."

I like John Stewart, I think he's smart and funny without been too intellectual. I also have a suspicion that a number of people watch the Daily Show and don't realize its fake, but that may just be paranoia on my behalf. However, if your justification for ending a show on your network is because some comedian who runs a FAKE new show critizes your show, and not because your a news channel that wants to focus on the NEWS rather than on some partisan shouting match, you need to seriously condsider your priorities.

Actually, I think CNN feels it is losing a war that it can't win. That bastion of level headed, unbiased news reporting, Fox (I'm sorry, did I say unbiased, I meant right wing reactionist. My bad.) has stolen considerable market share from CNN. So CNN has chosen to move battlegrounds away from commentary and back towards news - what next, MTV playing music videos?