Anyone else use The Daily Show as their ONLY news source?

musicismylife78
musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited July 2008 in A Moving Train
my other thread got me thinking...
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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    I'm pretty certain even Jon Stewart would tell you not to do that. But hey, it's no less biased than most other news sources out there.
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  • Eliot Rosewater
    Eliot Rosewater Posts: 2,659
    radiohead33 wrote:
    my other thread got me thinking...
    and maybe THAT'S why you don't give a damn about the election....
  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    on TV... yes. Well, that and the Colbert Report. And TMZ.

    But mostly I read the newspaper (cause I travel most weeks and live in a hotel) and read articles on the internets
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  • Wilds
    Wilds Posts: 4,329
    50% for me from Jon and Steven.

    25% from here

    20% CNN

    5% Water Cooler
  • Kel Varnsen
    Kel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    I am not sure how anyone could possibly use The Daily Show as their only news source. I mean a large chunk of the stuff they make fun of on that show they don't really explain, or at least they don't give much of an explanation. So if you are watching it without following the news you are probably not going to understand why about half the jokes are funny. It would be like watching Spaceballs without ever having seen Star Wars. Sure you will laugh, but a large chunk of the jokes will be over your head.
  • DeLukin
    DeLukin Posts: 2,757
    There are OTHER news sources???
    I smile, but who am I kidding...
  • Im still here
    Im still here Posts: 826
    hahahahaha

    i sure hope not

    scary, important issues cant be adressed on a comedy show

    think........
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  • Uncle Leo
    Uncle Leo Posts: 1,059
    Im still here wrote:
    hahahahaha

    i sure hope not

    scary, important issues cant be adressed on a comedy show

    think........

    Agreed. But for everyone that gets all of their news from the Daily Show, there are probably 5 or 10 who get it all from AM talk radio.
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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Uncle Leo wrote:
    Agreed. But for everyone that gets all of their news from the Daily Show, there are probably 5 or 10 who get it all from AM talk radio.

    I agree. There is a grave danger in both approaches. I find it's best to get information from as many sources as you can, taking into account the known biases of each source (a missive from MoveOn.org is as unlikely to be factually correct as the rantings of Rush Limbaugh) ... and then try to synthesize it all together and decide what I believe on the subject.
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  • dawng
    dawng Posts: 644
    80% of my news from NPR
    20% from John Stewart

    I am also thinking if you didn't hear news from another source, it would be hard to get some of his jokes.

    sort-of-related - my son has a "John Stewart for President" bumper sticker on his ride-along-jeep :)
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  • mdg164
    mdg164 Posts: 206
    Uncle Leo wrote:
    Agreed. But for everyone that gets all of their news from the Daily Show, there are probably 5 or 10 who get it all from AM talk radio.

    I don't listen to AM talk radio, but FM talk radio is the best sources of news I have found. People call it "biased" just because it doesn't lean left like just about every other form of news. I hear so called biased talk radio hosts rip Bush many times. That is what I like about it. They speak out against those who screw up, whether it is republican or democrat. Just so happens that the democrats screw up WAY more.... so that makes then very "biased." That being said, most hosts openly claim to have conservative values. But those values won't stop them from criticizing anyone. I'll take talk radio, at slightly right of center, than most other forms of far left media.

    The left really demonizes talk radio, because they have tried so hard to break in to it, and failed miserably. Apparently nobody wants to listen to their BS on the radio. So they keep bringing up the "fairness" doctrine in an effort to kill talk radio, even though it is completely un-constitutional. Just more fascism from the left.
    radiohead33 wrote:
    Anyone else use The Daily Show as their ONLY news source?

    This is really scary; it is a FAKE news show! Granted I think Jon Stewart is hilarious, but I can see through his far left agenda. I've got a great story about this....

    After a tsunami hit, Bush sends an aircraft carrier to ground zero. Stewart says, "as if things weren't bad enough, now Bush is going to bomb them!" I agree it is really funny, as long as you can see the truth behind the joke. The ignorant masses think... Bush is an idiot. But the truth is, that aircraft carrier carried thousands of troops to help. They had fully staffed hospitals on board to help. They had plenty of fresh drinking water. They used the nuclear reactors on board to send power on shore. Short of stopping the tsunami from hitting, which I am sure the left probably has blamed Bush for, there is nothing he could have done better. But you will never know that if you only get your news from the Daily show, your hatred of Bush will just grow.
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  • nobody
    nobody Posts: 353
    mdg164 wrote:
    That being said, most hosts openly claim to have conservative values. But those values won't stop them from criticizing anyone. I'll take talk radio, at slightly right of center, than most other forms of far left media.

    I always have the impression that what is considered "far left" in the US is for the most part pretty mainstream (or even center conservative) in most other "western" countries. I know it's all about regional reference points when it comes to political stance, but a look outside the US just once in a while wouldn't be the most inapprobriate thing to do...
    for example the daily show I wouldn't consider far left...in an international context...

    m.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    nobody wrote:
    I always have the impression that what is considered "far left" in the US is for the most part pretty mainstream (or even center conservative) in most other "western" countries. I know it's all about regional reference points when it comes to political stance, but a look outside the US just once in a while wouldn't be the most inapprobiate thing to do...
    for example the daily show I wouldn't consider far left...in an international context...

    m.

    True. What's considered 'left' in the U.S is just standard conservative. The corporations run the show.
    This is one reason why so many Americans are completely ignorant about what's happening in the Middle East. If they really knew where $15million of their tax money was being spent every day there would be some major shit hitting the fan. Instead the population is mostly indoctrinated, and passive.

    I mean, the fact that even on a Pearl Jam message board there are so many supporters of the illegal Israeli criminal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is frightening. And Pearl Jam are supposedly a 'left-leaning' band with intelligent fans. It certainly makes you wonder about the rest of the population.
  • nobody
    nobody Posts: 353
    Byrnzie wrote:
    True. What's considered 'left' in the U.S is just standard conservative. The corporations run the show.
    This is one reason why so many Americans are completely ignorant about what's happening in the Middle East. If they really knew where $15million of their tax money was being spent every day there would be some major shit hitting the fan. Instead the population is mostly indoctrinated, and passive.

    well, I don't know if I would put it so drastically...;)
    the fact is there never was a "real" political left in the USA...some (social/political) scientists claim it came that way cause in the beginning there was always the exit strategy of going west available if someone had problems (e.g. bad housing, low wages etc.); and because of this alternative wages had been relatively high from the very beginning (and I'm talking the very beginning;)) because the industry had to offer the people something to make them work for them and not seek their fortune on their own land...but I digress;)
    what I think is that there was never a political left established, because first there was no real need for it because there was always the possibilty of individual exit...and later, well it possibly was demonized right away because of soviet communism...
    but...it makes me laugh what is considered socialist in the US;)

    m.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    nobody wrote:
    well, I don't know if I would put it so drastically...;)
    the fact is there never was a "real" political left in the USA...some (social/political) scientists claim it came that way cause in the beginning there was always the exit strategy of going west available if someone had problems (e.g. bad housing, low wages etc.); and because of this alternative wages had been relatively high from the very beginning (and I'm talking the very beginning;)) because the industry had to offer the people something to make them work for them and not seek their fortune on their own land...but I digress;)
    what I think is that there was never a political left established, because first there was no real need for it because there was always the possibilty of individual exit...and later, well it possibly was demonized right away because of soviet communism...
    but...it makes me laugh what is considered socialist in the US;)

    m.

    I'd say there have been enormous, and successful popular movements within the U.S from the first Union struggles right through to the civil rights movement, and beyond to the massive demonstrations against the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
    I'm sure Howard Zinn would have something to say about this subject - i.e, A peoples history of the United states.
    Still, today the population appears to be mostly apathetic and generally ignorant about the world beyond it's own borders.
  • nobody
    nobody Posts: 353
    Byrnzie wrote:
    I'd say there have been enormous, and successful popular movements within the U.S from the first Union struggles right through to the civil rights movement, and beyond to the massive demonstrations against the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
    I'm sure Howard Zinn would have something to say about this subject - i.e, A peoples history of the United states.
    Still, today the population appears to be mostly apathetic and generally ignorant about the world beyond it's own borders.

    right, but that is already a lot later than I was talking about:)
    while Marx was already brimstone and fire about "satanic mills" in Europe everything was still pretty much okay in the US (for white people)...the movements came up as soon as the exit I mentioned was fading away...in the first quarter of the 20th century with depression, war and the race antagonism...
    in short: while in other countries a left was established relatively early (in the aftermath of industrialisation and also because of a repressive state, which never really existed in the US), the US never devoloped a traditional political left (partly for said reasons)...->no welfare state, big private educational sector, little state regulation...


    m.
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    "As an internet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    nobody wrote:
    right, but that is already a lot later than I was talking about:)
    while Marx was already brimstone and fire about "satanic mills" in Europe everything was still pretty much okay in the US (for white people)...the movements came up as soon as the exit I mentioned was fading away...in the first quarter of the 20th century with depression, war and the race antagonism...
    in short: while in other countries a left was established relatively early (in the aftermath of industrialisation and also because of a repressive state, which never really existed in the US), the US never devoloped a traditional political left (partly for said reasons)...->no welfare state, big private educational sector, little state regulation...


    m.

    Interesting.

    And nice board name by the way! :)
  • nobody
    nobody Posts: 353
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Interesting.

    And nice board name by the way! :)

    I am reading a lot about Industrial Revolutions in a comparative perspective for an exam at the moment...so I'm just wise-cracking;)

    yeah...you can do a lot of silly wordplay with it;)

    funny, none of the american posters commented on my far left remarks so far...;)

    m.
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  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/28/35-the-daily-showcolbert-report/

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    #35 The Daily Show/Colbert Report
    January 28, 2008 by clander

    The Daily Show/Colbert makes up a duo that is held in such high regard by white people that to criticize it would be the equivalent of setting the pope on fire in Italy in 1822. It just isn’t done, in fact it isn’t even considered!

    White people love to make fun of politics, especially right wing politics. It’s a pretty easy target and makes for some decent humor, but white people are actually starting to believe that these two shows are becoming legitimate news sources.

    “Oh, I don’t watch the news,” they will say. “I watch the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. You know, studies show that viewers of those shows are more educated than people who watch Fox News or CNN.”

    White women all consider John Stewart to be the most perfect man on the planet. This is not a debate, it is law.

    The Daily Show also features guests like John McCain, writers, policy analysts, and actors. It is comforting for white people to see boring celebrities get interviewed in a funny fashion. It fills their need to do something productive, but also not work that hard at it.

    Take note that Tuesday through Friday during the working week, you can break ALL awkward silences with white people by saying “did you see the Daily Show/Colbert Report last night?” At which point they will start talking until it’s time for you to move on to more interesting activities.
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  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    he still stands wrote:
    on TV... yes. Well, that and the Colbert Report.

    See post #20.
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