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?

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peterson, Russell Leslie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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?

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