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hundred and forty pounds of sugar per year" (Colbert Report). Almost every processed food contains corn syrup, sugar, or "sugar like" substances. Pollan indicates that the food industry has created this situation. The Farm Bill subsidizes corn and soy crops. These products are inexpensive for the consumer and very profitable for the food industry.…

“I don’t like books, they’re all fact, no heart” -Stephen Colbert. As ironic as this quote may seem it is another example of Stephen Colbert’s comedic style, thick satire. “I Am America (And So Can You!)” is another fantastic presentation of Colbert’s conservative capitalist character already shown on the Colbert Report. The book addresses issues that Americans face as adults and current issues facing the nation, plus a note to the future. All these issues are taken on with humor and satire…

What is the meaning of Alternative Facts? One has to wonder what alternative facts are. Honestly, I never heard of this phrase before, so I did what I always do. I take the words apart, search for the meanings of the individual words and then place them back together. The word alternative means, there may be one or more things available as a possibility. The meaning of facts is, something that is truthful, or reality. The word oxymoron enters my mind when these two words are placed together.…

Jacobs and Wild argue that though there is a significant scholarly and public interest in the Daily Show and the Colbert Report’s programs, little is known about the kind of influence these new media genres are having in the public sphere. However, there are a number of factors that may explain where the Daily Show and the Colbert Report fit to into informing the public. Knowledge Levels of the Audiences: There are significant differences in the knowledge levels of the audiences for different…

Daily Show","One important difference between The Daily Show and traditional media sources is that "fake" news typically doesn 't gather the news, but rather comments on stories reported by traditional news "(373). The Daily Show does not collect and report the news as traditional news program, instead it processes traditional news. Based on traditional news, The Daily Show has been criticizing and satirizing the traditional news. The humorous style of daily shows easily attracted me. As an…

Daniel O’Brien is the head writer and creative director of video for cracked.com. He wrote an article on his website (leading up to his book “How to Fight Presidents”) and found out the hard way that you should not google the weaknesses of a living president without expecting a visit from secret service agents who are immune to the charms of comedians. O’Brien has been with the website Cracked since 2007 or as he claims “before they were cool” (O’Brien). Comedians who read O’Brien’s article…

Meredith Kressen Bobby Howard PHIL 2203-001 Fallacies in Popular Culture In 2001, Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert were both cast members of the hit television show, The Daily Show, which airs on Comedy Central. During one of their segments titled “Even Stephen” the two poked fun at each other while either arguing extremely for or extremely against a certain topic. The video I have chosen to analyze was an argument regarding the topic of a patient’s bill of rights. Although there are many…

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…

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on the rise and parents have to shield their children from this and talk to them about the issue rather than letting them draw their own conclusions by what the report stated because as we know the media does not always report the whole story. But, everything the media report is negative there are also a lot of positives like the reports of good that people do in society like helping people that are less fortunate and focusing on youth that are doing positive things in the…