It all began in the year 1999, the beginning of a new outlet for information began, With the use of satirical techniques many new news show had begun to shake the standards the news had previously had. Starting with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to continue to The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert and even websites like the onion all having a unique and ever evolving standards of their own. These news television programs unifying news and comedy into something new shocked people. Some of the technique utilized for the sake of these types of news show are hyperbole, and fake news to critique prominent current events or political issues, and satire to pull it all together. These shows use these three components to put into light the blemishes
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The effect of this is a slow change brought by people facing situations they shunned into the darkness, allowing many to stand up for what is right and even affect politics or the world. To argue the importance of these show, a person must analyse each aspect and technique using many resources that shows the techniques and effects of satirical new shows such as The Stewart/Colbert Effect: Essays on the Real Impacts of Fake News." Edited by Amarnath Amarasingam, “Studies in Political Humour: In between Political Critique and Public Entertainment” by Villy Tsakona, and Diana Elena Popa, and Entertaining politics : satiric television and political engagement by Jeffrey P. Jones in comparison to the actual episodes. Many theories must be applied to fully understand the analyse these type of shows, using Sigmund Freud, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious and many of the theories such as Superiority theory as shown in many of the works by Aristotle and plato and the Incongruity theory as shown in the The Five Canons of Ciceronian Rhetoric which are, invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery as used in by satirical news show …show more content…
Through the analysing of the daily show we have come to learn the start of this genre of news and how it can and has evolved. Many different shows have come to Copy the daily show, such as the Colbert Report or the Roast and even Infomania, many of these shows have taken in the basic principle and evolved it in there own way. News used to be all the same no matter the channel or the host, but, Satirical news show are always different. With the evolution of the show, more and more people are attracted to these types of show for its bravado and it’s ability to always feel fresh due to its constant evolution. The genre has shown it’s importance with it’s ability to draw people on and keep people focused and entertained while criticizing their moral standards and the society they live in. To generalize the point, though it can be said that the unconventional methods that are shown are to strange compared to the original methods and can’t be taken seriously, the use of satire in the news shows are actually nothing but serious. People tend to overlook the fact that humour is not irrelevant when it come to gravity or seriousness of a situation, but actually a way of coping and understanding. That is the importance of these show it brings out information in a way that is easy to cope with and
The effect of this is a slow change brought by people facing situations they shunned into the darkness, allowing many to stand up for what is right and even affect politics or the world. To argue the importance of these show, a person must analyse each aspect and technique using many resources that shows the techniques and effects of satirical new shows such as The Stewart/Colbert Effect: Essays on the Real Impacts of Fake News." Edited by Amarnath Amarasingam, “Studies in Political Humour: In between Political Critique and Public Entertainment” by Villy Tsakona, and Diana Elena Popa, and Entertaining politics : satiric television and political engagement by Jeffrey P. Jones in comparison to the actual episodes. Many theories must be applied to fully understand the analyse these type of shows, using Sigmund Freud, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious and many of the theories such as Superiority theory as shown in many of the works by Aristotle and plato and the Incongruity theory as shown in the The Five Canons of Ciceronian Rhetoric which are, invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery as used in by satirical news show …show more content…
Through the analysing of the daily show we have come to learn the start of this genre of news and how it can and has evolved. Many different shows have come to Copy the daily show, such as the Colbert Report or the Roast and even Infomania, many of these shows have taken in the basic principle and evolved it in there own way. News used to be all the same no matter the channel or the host, but, Satirical news show are always different. With the evolution of the show, more and more people are attracted to these types of show for its bravado and it’s ability to always feel fresh due to its constant evolution. The genre has shown it’s importance with it’s ability to draw people on and keep people focused and entertained while criticizing their moral standards and the society they live in. To generalize the point, though it can be said that the unconventional methods that are shown are to strange compared to the original methods and can’t be taken seriously, the use of satire in the news shows are actually nothing but serious. People tend to overlook the fact that humour is not irrelevant when it come to gravity or seriousness of a situation, but actually a way of coping and understanding. That is the importance of these show it brings out information in a way that is easy to cope with and