CMS 100 Lab
September 29, 2008
23/6, a liberal video production studio, edits news events down to 60 sec for "In A Minute" pieces.
"So, you had something else to do on Friday night, but you need to fake a political conversation at work? Our Presidential Debate in a Minute will take you through lunch."
Stewart, Colbert, Indecision 2008. Tradition of using humor to discuss and play with sensitive social and political issues.
But in this campaign in particular, behaving like journalists. For example, Contrasting various statements by Republic party representatives.
Consider Jon Stewart on Crossfire, 2004. He suggests that his show is comedy and therefore subject to different standards than is Crossfire (or any show on CNN). Is he ducking responsibility? Would he make a similar argument today? [Transcript available.]
Further opinion on "the Daily Show effect":
Email fwds often take on lives of their own. They evolve and mutate as they spread throughout various social networks, tweaked and modified by countless forwarders along the way.
Data collected by Kevin Driscoll, Comparative Media Studies, MIT, TA for CMS.100 on September 28, 2008.
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