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Writer's Block: Comedians as Journalists
Friday, 17 October 2008 13:21[Error: unknown template qotd]
Neither, because I'm not stupid enough to think that fake news is actually a good source of information about current events and politics. IT'S COMEDY, FFS. If you don't trust the media, then watch a bunch of different news channels (I recommend putting Fox in your repetoire, so long as you avoid the wingnut known as Bill O'Reilly). Also, go online and read, and read the freaking newspaper. Listen to the radio too if you want.
Nothing is ever going to be as fair and balanced as you think it ought to be, because different people have different ideas as to what that entails. However, totally ignoring the fact that a comedy show is just that, COMEDY, isn't going to get you trustworthy news. It just makes you an idiot. (For the record, I don't watch either The Daily Show or The Colbert Report with any sense of regularity, but I'm pretty sure that it's been brought up that the shows are not meant to be taken seriously.)
Neither, because I'm not stupid enough to think that fake news is actually a good source of information about current events and politics. IT'S COMEDY, FFS. If you don't trust the media, then watch a bunch of different news channels (I recommend putting Fox in your repetoire, so long as you avoid the wingnut known as Bill O'Reilly). Also, go online and read, and read the freaking newspaper. Listen to the radio too if you want.
Nothing is ever going to be as fair and balanced as you think it ought to be, because different people have different ideas as to what that entails. However, totally ignoring the fact that a comedy show is just that, COMEDY, isn't going to get you trustworthy news. It just makes you an idiot. (For the record, I don't watch either The Daily Show or The Colbert Report with any sense of regularity, but I'm pretty sure that it's been brought up that the shows are not meant to be taken seriously.)
