Truthiness

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 Colbert Report makes its viewers act, makes them think, and entertains them. The viewers of The Colbert Report want to act once they see the show. On the show, Colbert advertises multiple charities. For instance, when a typhoon hit the Philippines, he told his viewers to donate in order to beat china, who hardly donated. Colbert has also told his viewers to donate to The Red Cross after a big incident like the tsunami that hit japan. The Colbert Report also started a super PAC which is a type of fund people can donate to. Stephan Colbert urged his viewers to donate, and so they did. The viewers donated enormous amounts of money. Colbert impacted his viewers in an immense way with the super PAC. The Colbert Report also uses social media to make its viewers act. For example, one time on his show The Colbert Report, Colbert told his viewers to use Twitter to express opinions about what the super PAC should be used for. Thousands of viewers posted their opinions about what the super PAC…

The book Zeitoun indeed has useful and accurate information about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This novel is an example of creative nonfiction. Creative Nonfiction are true stories that are well told. The “creative” aspect refers to the literary craft of the piece, and the “nonfiction” refers to piece being factual. Zeitoun is the perfect example of this genre because it written from the perspective of Kathy and Abdulrahman Zeitoun, and their accounts of the aftermath of Hurricane…

honest when I first heard the word I had no clue what it was. My guess was probably as good as yours. As I got into it I found out the real meaning and how post-truth affected our everyday life. According to Wiktionary Post-Truth is, “The fact or state of being post-truth; a time period or situation in which facts have become less important than emotional persuasion.” So in other words “Going with your gut”, listen to your emotions and how you think, do not listen to the facts. Post truth just…

He particularly applied it to U.S. President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003. He was the featured entertainer at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, held at the Hilton Washington hotel in Washington, D.C. on April 29, 2006. Most of his jokes were directed at President Bush at the dinner. Most of the speech was prepared specifically for the event from The Colbert Report, including parts of the "truthiness" monologue from the first episode of the show, where…

“Virtue does not come from wealth but that wealth and every other good thing which a man have whether in public or in private come from virtue.” ( Plato, 53). According to Socrates wisdom weights more than wealth and cures ignorance. Education makes you a better judge of your life and helps you distinguish between valuable things and things that have little matter or don’t matter at all. According to the founder of philosophy, an ideal man with a perfect soul should value a great deal of…

Chris Hedges' states in his introduction, "we in the industrial world bear responsibility for the world's genocides because we had the power to intervene and did not. We stood by and watched the slaughter in Chechnya, Sri-Lanka, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Rwanda, where a million people died (16)." The world could not prevent innocent people from war, which was failure of the world leaders and country like the United States. Hedges' idea and experiences about war and conflict are real and…

For example, to verify if the statement “There is a bottle of milk there?”, we just need to go to the refrigerator and check. Then we will be able to determine whether or not the sentence is true. One major weakness of the correspondence theory is that the correspondence theory cannot prove the truthiness of certain aspects, especially things that are supernatural. For example, the correspondence theory will not be able to determine whether or not God exist. The coherence theory is the belief…

earth as we know it. Many instances have almost led to this apocalypse, yet the closest has been the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Russia. What wars have proven to society is that they end with the death of millions of soldiers and about twice that number for innocent civilians. One author who challenges the aspect of war is Kate Wilhelm, a scholarly writer, wrote the story titled “The Village” which is fiction, actually mirrors the My Lai incident during the Vietnam War.…

The Article, “Truth Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society” by Farhad Manjoo argues that we live in an era of selective perception. We as viewers expect for all information on the news to be beneficial towards us and trustworthy. Yet, news publications can be tainted, similar to all types of media. Manjoo explains the concept of Video News Releases, which is a short clip of marketing propaganda disguised as a real news due to its language and style. In fact, each of these news segments…

of the American media. Though Rich does not intend a castigation of Bush or the conflict in Iraq, his views concerning them are robust and easily discernable, and for that reason this book may not be well received by dynamic proponents of the two. In addition, due to the abundance of unequivocal and ambiguous allusions alike, the book may not be a desirable read for individuals lacking a knowledge of political and popular culture in American during the late 1990s through 2000s; the…