Peter White Television EditorJon Stewart has spoken openly about the fact that that The Daily Show didn’t adequately address issues of workplace diversity during his tenure as host.Stewart, who hosted the Comedy Central series between 1999 and 2015, made the admission in an interview with Charlamagne tha God on his radio show The Breakfast Club.He said that The Daily Show did have a policy that removed names from submission packets. “But we still kept just hiring white dudes.
White dudes from a certain background,” he said. “What we realized is the river that we were getting the material from, the tributary was also polluted by the same inertia.
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