From my brilliant friend, Elizabeth:
JON STEWART AS SUBSTANTIVE AS NETWORK NEWS
[SOURCE: Indiana University press release]
Which would you think has more substantive news
coverage -- traditional broadcast network
newscasts or The Daily Show with Jon Stewart?
Would you believe the answer is neither? Julia R.
Fox, assistant professor of telecommunications at
Indiana University isn't joking when she says the
popular "fake news" program, which last week
featured Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as
a guest, is just as substantive as network
coverage. While much has been written in the
media about The Daily Show's impact, Fox's study
is the first scholarly effort to systematically
examine how the comedy program compares to
traditional television news as sources of
political information. The study, "No Joke: A
Comparison of Substance in The Daily Show with
Jon Stewart and Broadcast Network Television
Coverage of the 2004 Presidential Election
Campaign," will be published next summer by the
Journal of Broadcast and Electronic Media,
published by the Broadcast Education Association.
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/4159.html
I'm not sure that this is true. After all, I don't think Stewart covers important news topics such as whether the Runaway Bride was right to sue her ex-fiance, how thin Nichole Richie has gotten, and whether or not Tom Cruise is crazy. So how can he expect to be taken seriously?
6 comments:
Oh, and Jon doesn't have that valuable 'freeper speech' segment, either. Definitely not hard hitting news. And who had the first pictures of the Cruise chia-pet? Not basic cable!
Also, he's my secret boyfriend - or at least one of them.
He can't be your secret boyfriend, elizabeth, because he's my secret love slave.
Oh, all right. I suppose I can share. ;)
Oh, Hecate, here's one for you!
Allen's staffers tell him to STFU.
Heh.
You guys can have Jon. My daughter will marry his son, so I'll get him in the family that way.
OT, but... Hecate, you may wanna be looking in your mailbox for a bit of returned mail.
A lot of folx forget to put my unit number on the address, and it come back...
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The sad (or telling) thing is that I read that headline as a slam on Stewart...
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