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I guess I will be heavily downmodded today. > According to the article, there is a 1.8 million viewer base per night. It gets viewed more often than that (thr
by w00pla2 16y ago
I guess I will be heavily downmodded today.
> According to the article, there is a 1.8 million viewer base per night.
It gets viewed more often than that (through video streaming). It also appears on CNN International at different times (WTF?). Many people also watch it irregularly.
> In any case, this line is a brilliant response to your claim:
He just confirms what I've said, but put it more eloquently.
> And I will lead you to the land of answers, my people!’
> You can fall in love with your own idea of common sense.
Usually rational people form conclusions (i.e. reaches answers to questions) based on an objective discussion from all angles/sides to a story. Does this happen on the Daily Show? No. Does the Daily Show go into depth (from all sides) to complex and important news topics, allowing the viewer to come to his own nuanced conclusion? No.
Does it quote people out of context, have interviews under false pretences, cut tapes to put people in bad light, add questions which the interviewee was never asked and break all rules of journalistic ethics? Yes.
The idea of the Daily Show is simple – they would make fun of groups such as the Republican Party (through some of the methods above). Their audience laugh – not because it was really funny, but because it reinforces their own ideological bias.
PS: I am not American, and that show completely irritates the hell out of me. The whole of CNN for that matter went down the drain. If you want (somewhat good) television journalism, it seems that only Al-Jazeera can provide it.
- elblanco 16y agoAfter reading this, I don't think you understand what the Daily Show is. This is probably the best discussion about what the show is all about (note: crossfire was canceled almost immediately after this). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
- GiraffeNecktie 16y agoYou don't like the Daily Show because it fails to provide serious, non-partisan, in-depth and balanced analysis of current events???? Did you miss the part about it being being a mock news program?
- lzw 16y agoI'm an American, I used to watch the daily dhow regularly, and you are spot on. The show pretends to be giving the news, t itbis dishonest, and it essentially tells lies about others in order to mock them. If it mocked them for things they actually did, it would be one thing, but people believe that it is accurately portraying them and so it spreads misinformation as part of a hate campaign. I've studied leni reifenstahl as well, and this is propaganda of e highest order. Only instead of targeting Jews, it targets anyone who is not a socialist.
- panacea 16y agoDid you seriously just compare The Daily Show to Nazi Propaganda films? (And there's no way I accept that it's a socialist hate campaign... that's straight out of Glenn Beck rhetoric land).
- lzw 16y agoAbsolutely, and I say this as one who studied many semesters in college the films of Germany, Nazi, pre-Nazi and post Nazi. Of course you won't accept it as a socialist hate campaign. Do you think that Germans are genetically predisposed to fascism? Do you think they are weak or inferior to Americans in some way? How is it, do you suppose, that they let Nazis take power, and commit such massive crimes?
- krschultz 16y agoWhy does socialism == hate campaign? What is the association between them? There is a huge difference between a Democrat/liberal person and a socialist, and a huge difference between socialists and facists, and all of them are short of being Nazis. Anyone standing on the right, painting everyone to their left as socialist Nazis trying to destroy America are completely out of touch.
- lzw 16y agoOmg, do you know Nazi is short for? Nationalist socialists. It is a socialist party. Fascism differs from socialism only in the businesses being titularly in private hands, but they are completely controlled by the government in both. I think it is quite sad to see so many people who are clearly ignorant about this history using their ignorance as a justification to call me names.