I completely respect your opinions and others' even if they differ from mine.
However, I don't subscribe to that logic (edit: the any attention being good bit). Look where an ever increasing amount of corporate press, full of lies and gaslighting and corruption and propaganda has gotten us.
Add small voices like ours to the conversation to persuade and counter. Or maybe get some of the new, dissident, alternative press to chip in if you have vetted and trust them. But trust is the key components here. I trust those I know personally, not faces on my screen or voices in my ear.
I've watches Stewart his whole career and think he's a snake, and one of "them'". Controlled opposition as I said. I think those types pay lips service to tamp down movements so those in the movement think, "oh, look, someone important and popular is on our side and coming to save us. Maybe even a congress critter! Guess I'll just wait for them to do the heavy lifting with the DC and corpo connected big boys". Back to providing for your family and trying to enjoy life and such, which is good, but for those snakes. OR fall back into your regularly scheduled complacency.
Look at Occupy Wall Street, or any other large social movement. The Jon Stewarts of those events did fuck all to change the system.