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Satire as Journalism: The Daily Show and American Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Notions of community and civic participation, and the role journalism plays in establishing, reinforcing or disrupting them, have been part of American life since the early days of the republic. Equally American, and closely connected with them, are the ideas that our public institutions and …
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Political Satire and Political News: Entertaining, Accidentally Reporting or Both? The Case of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TDS)
For the last decade, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TDS), a (Comedy Central) cable comedy show, has been increasingly seen as an informative, new, even revolutionary, form of journalism. A substantial body of literature appeared, adopting this view. On closer inspection, it became clear that this …
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INDECISION 2008: REAPPROPRIATION AS POLITICAL ARGUMENT IN THE DAILY SHOW'S COVERAGE OF THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart uses humor to explore, analyze, and criticize current media and political trends, politicians, and campaigns. Reappropriation uses video as an argument against the original producers of that content, one of the tools used to highlight the problems with the political …
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Unburdened by Objectivity: Political Entertainment News in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
… analyzes 2008 presidential election coverage on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report to determine how they confront the tension between the genres of news and entertainment. To this point, much of the scholarly work on political entertainment news has focused on examining its …
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Laughing Our Way To Stronger Democracy: Political Comedy's Potential To Equalize Political Interest And Political Knowledge In Community College Students
<p>Political comedy is the one off-line news source – albeit soft news – that young adults access in higher rates than older adults. They are tuning into political comedy to be entertained, but while watching, they also get a healthy dose of politics. For otherwise apolitical young people, does …
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Swift and Stewart: The Societal Background and Influence of Satirists in Turbulent Times
<p> <p>In this paper, I consider the success of Jonathan Swift’s <em>The Drapier’s Letters </em>and Jon Stewart’s<em><em> </em></em></p> <em><em>The Daily Show </em></em>in changing the political climate of the world around them. By analyzing the political background of America in the 2000s and the …