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activity that people tend to take part in to a different sort of digital escapism. For this I believe that the difference between normal world news such as reading The New York Times or watching CNN compares to watching comedy news shows such as The Daily Show. After this analysis, it will be easy to see how Nick Yee’s thesis can be compared to many different types of media. In this…

A 24-year-old blogger for The Washington Post, Ben Domenech, resigned yesterday after being confronted with evidence that he had plagiarized articles in other publications. His resignation came after writing six blog items in the three days he worked for Red America, a blog that The Post created to offer a conservative viewpoint on its Web site. Mr. Domenech — who had worked in the Bush administration and was a founder of the conservative blog RedState.com — came under heavy criticism from…

The criticism of Daily Show regarding Criminal justice reform Humans’ minds are the most precious gifts god has given to us. However, sometimes our minds could be manipulated without being known by ourselves. As people know more and more about how our brains and psycho-activities are functioning, the ways to mislead people’s thoughts are being mastered by more and more people, especially politicians. Under this circumstance, it seems that people need a role of some outside instructions to…

point right or is it wrong? Jon Stewart, a moderate comedian, delivers cable news The Daily Show with witty dialogue to charm people. His job is amusing the audience rather than informing them. Not to mention, today’s Comedy Central program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart carries a broader perspective of how the audience should understand society. With this in mind, many divergent audiences enjoy watching The Daily Show more than any other cable news in television. Stewart delivers a clear,…

fast food and snack industries have become multi-billionaire businesses. Ingesting these "foods" does not come without consequences. Pollan agues our Western Diet of refined flours, fats, and sugars leads to obesity, heart disease, and diabetes (Daily Show). According to Pollan, our diet has changed over the last one hundred years. In the past, man subsided on meat, vegetables, fruit, and a little bit of whole grains. He argues that our bodies know how to digest corn, but not…

Does watching the news make viewers laugh? Do they understand what the news show is trying to explain? Airing Monday through Thursday at 11:30pm, The Colbert Report, a television show, is a satire news show that displays an easier to understand form of news. The Colbert Report is a parody of the news show The O’Reilly Factor which takes on current controversial political issues. The star of The Colbert Report is Stephen Colbert. He plays a character on the show who is silly and sarcastic. The…

The Daily Show - Consequence-Free Speech Stewart John during this podcast criticizes an NBA sports and political personnel. The structure itself comes from a network named “Comedy Central’. Compared to our podcast, The Daily Show had focused far more on criticisms. The main genres that the podcast focuses on is politics and comedy. The comedic touch towards the podcast was that he was able to keep audiences entertained by making a humorous atmosphere with jokes and mocking other people while we…

manor, as “an active idiot” (Lynch, 2012). While Stewart and Colbert have been compared to the fools of Shakespearean plays, they have also been compared to Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and the Greek philosopher, Socrates (Lynch, 2012). The Daily Show(TDS) and The Colbert Report (TCR) were designed to mix important current issues for public consideration, couched in humor and silliness. While TCR is a spin-off of TDR, both shows take unique approaches in pulling back the curtains to expose…

There are few things in sports journalism that I’m more comfortable with than a beat. My experience – primarily in college as a writer, then editor, of the Daily Bruin at UCLA – has been shaped by the beat system. UCLA’s strongest athletic teams are often the Olympic sports rather than football or men’s basketball, and the Daily Bruin is lucky to have a large enough staff to fully cover all of those teams. Since my first day in the Sports Department as a contributor on the men’s water polo beat…

Jon Stewart is a comedian who worked on The Daily Show, which recently ended, and others. In the Daily Show, a lot of work, research, and other things had to be done before the show aired each night. That required a whole team to help with the many tasks. Jon Stewart appears to be a nice and humorous person on the television, but he is not the same towards his writers and other staff. He has a low temper, and sometimes takes it out on them. “A staffer recalls the time when Stewart’s temper got…