Daily Kos

It all began in the year 1999, the beginning of a new outlet for information began, With the use of satirical techniques many new news show had begun to shake the standards the news had previously had. Starting with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to continue to The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert and even websites like the onion all having a unique and ever evolving standards of their own. These news television programs unifying news and comedy into something new shocked people. Some of the…

activity that people tend to take part in to a different sort of digital escapism. For this I believe that the difference between normal world news such as reading The New York Times or watching CNN compares to watching comedy news shows such as The Daily Show. After this analysis, it will be easy to see how Nick Yee’s thesis can be compared to many different types of media. In this…

The criticism of Daily Show regarding Criminal justice reform Humans’ minds are the most precious gifts god has given to us. However, sometimes our minds could be manipulated without being known by ourselves. As people know more and more about how our brains and psycho-activities are functioning, the ways to mislead people’s thoughts are being mastered by more and more people, especially politicians. Under this circumstance, it seems that people need a role of some outside instructions to…

point right or is it wrong? Jon Stewart, a moderate comedian, delivers cable news The Daily Show with witty dialogue to charm people. His job is amusing the audience rather than informing them. Not to mention, today’s Comedy Central program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart carries a broader perspective of how the audience should understand society. With this in mind, many divergent audiences enjoy watching The Daily Show more than any other cable news in television. Stewart delivers a clear,…

Since our last MDIA 2010 journal, we have discussed many different topics and ideas. First, we talked about Political parody and satires like SNL. Then, we had a guest speaker, Jamie who brought to light the gatekeeping in China. The following class, we learned about digital inequality and the social class. Then, we discussed how fake news is represented and had another guest speaker, Nune Grigoryan who discussed Russia and its censorship. Most recently, we talked about social media activism.…

fast food and snack industries have become multi-billionaire businesses. Ingesting these "foods" does not come without consequences. Pollan agues our Western Diet of refined flours, fats, and sugars leads to obesity, heart disease, and diabetes (Daily Show). According to Pollan, our diet has changed over the last one hundred years. In the past, man subsided on meat, vegetables, fruit, and a little bit of whole grains. He argues that our bodies know how to digest corn, but not…

He was the top scientist at the Oscorp laboratory. He was designing a hover pad, and a chemical that is supposed to make a human stronger and better without any side affects. The government did not approve because of his one test failure of the many he had on animals. He was going to lose his job unless he proved that it worked on humans without side affects. He tested it on himself and became The Green Goblin. He killed his fellow scientist and the government people who would accept his ideas.…

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…

The Daily Show - Consequence-Free Speech Stewart John during this podcast criticizes an NBA sports and political personnel. The structure itself comes from a network named “Comedy Central’. Compared to our podcast, The Daily Show had focused far more on criticisms. The main genres that the podcast focuses on is politics and comedy. The comedic touch towards the podcast was that he was able to keep audiences entertained by making a humorous atmosphere with jokes and mocking other people while we…

manor, as “an active idiot” (Lynch, 2012). While Stewart and Colbert have been compared to the fools of Shakespearean plays, they have also been compared to Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and the Greek philosopher, Socrates (Lynch, 2012). The Daily Show(TDS) and The Colbert Report (TCR) were designed to mix important current issues for public consideration, couched in humor and silliness. While TCR is a spin-off of TDR, both shows take unique approaches in pulling back the curtains to expose…