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Strange Bedfellows : How Late-Night Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke /

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A significant number of Americans get some of their "news" about politics and national affairs from comedy shows. Is "infotainment" a debasement, or a replacement, for traditional news outlets?

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal:	Peterson, Russell Leslie (Auteur)
Format:	Électronique eBook
Langue:	Inglés
Publié:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2008.
Collection:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:	Television talk shows. Television comedies. Television broadcasting of news. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies. PERFORMING ARTS > Television > Reference. Telejournaux > États-Unis. Talk-shows > États-Unis. Comedies televisees > États-Unis > Histoire et critique. Television broadcasting of news > United States. Television talk shows > United States. Television comedies > United States > History and criticism. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:	Texto completo

Table des matières:

Losing our religion
"Showmen is devoid of politics": the roots of pseudo-satire and the rise of the comedy-industrial complex
Film at 11:00, jokes at 11:30: topical comedy and the news
The personal and the political
Pay no attention to that man in front of the curtain
Truth versus Truthiness; or, Looking for Mr. Smith
For whom the bell dings
Laughing all the way to the White House
Irony is dead ... long live satire?