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The Daily Show as Substantive as Broadcast News
Walter C. writes "Anyone who watches the evening news with any regularity knows that it's not a bastion of substance. However, a new study conducted by researchers at Indiana University reports that The Daily Show has just as much substance to it as the broadcast news. 'The researchers looked at coverage of the 2004 Democratic and Republican national conventions and the first presidential debate of the fall campaign, all of which were covered by the mainstream broadcast news outlets and The Daily Show... There was just as much substance to The Daily Show's coverage as there was on the network news. And The Daily Show was much funnier, with less of the hype — references to photo ops, political endorsements, and polls — that typically overshadows substantive coverage on network news, according to the study.'"
Your media stinks! And everyone else knows it. CBS or even ABC and CNN (bar CNN Int'l) are no match for the BBC, Euronews or even the propagandic Aljazeera for that matter. It's void of journalistic integrity. Just this evening I was watching CBS news, and it occurred to me you Yanks have little idea of anything going on outside your borders. So much censorship and lobbying you have in your media it's sickening (alright, so all media are biased, but you go over the top). News programmes with the emotional music or that crap really grate on my nerves. They can't even preview a book without blatantly advertising for it, like tonight's CBS news show (can't bloody bother to remember the title of the book this time). Bah!
The Daily Show on the other hand, it's a breath of fresh air.. Shame they charge insane rates for American cable channels. Then again, maybe not =P
I saw Fox news once when I was visiting my father. I'd rank it somewhere below Radio Moscow in the 1960s on a "fair and balanced" scale.
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It's ok, they can always just talk to Fox News.
What any of that has to do with a caption typo, I have no idea. I won't even get into the level of your world view.
Pfft. CNN is just as corporate as all the rest - they're in no way left-wing.
In any case, CNN would not falsely label a former Congressman as a member of the other party just to smear them, as Fox News has been doing recently. Nor would they engage in the many, MANY dirty tactics that Fox News uses on a daily basis.
Fox News is basically Pravda for the right wing.