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I don't understand the comedy shows presenting themselves as news. Watch Colbert and then watch, say, PBS News Hour. (Actually it's been a year or more since I'
by marshray 15y ago
I don't understand the comedy shows presenting themselves as news. Watch Colbert and then watch, say, PBS News Hour. (Actually it's been a year or more since I've seen either.)
Part of me suspects that Colbert turns off some of the same higher functions of the brain that O'Reilly does.
- mbreese 15y agoThen you're just not getting the joke. They are comedy shows that mock cable news shows. Stewart and Colbert are very clear that they aren't news. Try watching Fox News for an hour and compare that to the PBS News Hour... then you'll get the joke.
- shasta 15y agoThey are sometimes clear. As long as its still funny with that clear.
- ams6110 15y agoAs if PBS News Hour is somehow the standard of impartial journalism....
- marshray 15y agoI didn't say it was impartial, but that it's categorically different in some interesting way.
- marshray 15y agoFrom what hear, the S&C are the primary source of "news" for a lot of the younger crowd.