physorg.com— A new study suggests that entertainment news shows such as The Daily Show or The Colbert Report may not be as influential in teaching voters about political issues and candidates as was previously thought.
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"When you have *years* of archive footage you can find instances of nearly anyone *seeming* to contradict themselves."Or maybe, you meant *weeks* of footage and *real* contradictions.On August 10th, Karl Rove said the following about Tim Kaine former major of Richmond, VA with 200,000 residents and Governor of VA with 7.6 million people."Will all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years, he's been able but undistinguished. I don't think people could really name a big, important thing that he's done. [Kaine] was mayor of the 105th largest city in America," Rove said. "And again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it's smaller than Chula Vista, California; Aurora, Colorado; Mesa, or Gilbert, Arizona; North Las Vegas, or Henderson, Nevada. It's not a big town. .. If you were to pick Governor Kaine," he said "it would be an intensely political choice where he said, 'you know what, i'm really not first and foremost concerned with is this person capable of being president of the United States.'" And then on August 29 about Palin: "she's a populist, she's an economic and social conservative, she's a reformer, she's a mayor, she's a mayor I think of the 2nd largest city in Alaska before she ran for governor"<a class="user" href="http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=184086">http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?vi ...</a>
what makes you think it was ever there at all?i equate fox news with the daily show. each rouses their own rabble and i'm surprised this made the front page.
neither is bad. for one thing, i'm not sure people do trust the daily show more than the mainstream media, because the daily show relies on the mainstream media to cover events.the daily show is meta-news... commentary on the news. fox news is the same... they would not exist except for the fact that people on the right also distrust the mainstream media. at least the daily show admits they're joking. fox doesn't.
v1ncentSep 8, 2008
The Daily Show is the only place on TV I can get my news from without vomiting.
auto98Sep 9, 2008
thing is that the daily show rips every side - perhaps a bit gentler on the liberal side, but it still does it
br0ckSep 9, 2008
"When you have *years* of archive footage you can find instances of nearly anyone *seeming* to contradict themselves."Or maybe, you meant *weeks* of footage and *real* contradictions.On August 10th, Karl Rove said the following about Tim Kaine former major of Richmond, VA with 200,000 residents and Governor of VA with 7.6 million people."Will all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years, he's been able but undistinguished. I don't think people could really name a big, important thing that he's done. [Kaine] was mayor of the 105th largest city in America," Rove said. "And again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it's smaller than Chula Vista, California; Aurora, Colorado; Mesa, or Gilbert, Arizona; North Las Vegas, or Henderson, Nevada. It's not a big town. .. If you were to pick Governor Kaine," he said "it would be an intensely political choice where he said, 'you know what, i'm really not first and foremost concerned with is this person capable of being president of the United States.'" And then on August 29 about Palin: "she's a populist, she's an economic and social conservative, she's a reformer, she's a mayor, she's a mayor I think of the 2nd largest city in Alaska before she ran for governor"<a class="user" href="http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=184086">http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?vi ...</a>
jgzmanSep 10, 2008
When the chips are down, the ends ALWAYS justify the means.Civilization is the process of pretending that this is not true.
uncleosbertSep 18, 2008
what makes you think it was ever there at all?i equate fox news with the daily show. each rouses their own rabble and i'm surprised this made the front page.
uncleosbertSep 18, 2008
neither is bad. for one thing, i'm not sure people do trust the daily show more than the mainstream media, because the daily show relies on the mainstream media to cover events.the daily show is meta-news... commentary on the news. fox news is the same... they would not exist except for the fact that people on the right also distrust the mainstream media. at least the daily show admits they're joking. fox doesn't.