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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.'"
FROM the article:
...It also demonstrates that the mainstream media may not be so mainstream anymore, and that people looking for in-depth treatments of newsworthy topics are often best served by looking in places other than the evening news or The Daily Show, no matter how funny the latter is.
/.ers watch this shite and 2 be honest it saddens me more folks aren't tuning out of garbage and tuning into a truly exemplary media outlet for the truly informed, CSPAN1, 2, 3 & cspan.org
Is it time to tune out World News Tonight and tune into The Daily Show? Professor Fox doesn't think so, saying that "we should probably be concerned about both of those sources, because neither one is particularly substantive. It's a bottom-line industry and ratings-driven. We live in an 'infotainment' society, and there certainly are a number of other sources available."
IMHO, Like the mainstream press, and the Daily Show and sadly I think slashdot.org; We see the same old non-substantive dripple, churned out and gobbled up hook, line and sinker by the feeble minded youth and adults of our modern society...
NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, "et al" in the drive-by-media are all a by-product of an ill-informed, public school brainwashed populus...
I cannot believe so many
FROM the article:
...It also demonstrates that the mainstream media may not be so mainstream anymore, and that people looking for in-depth treatments of newsworthy topics are often best served by looking in places other than the evening news or The Daily Show, no matter how funny the latter is.
/.ers watch this shite and 2 be honest it saddens me more folks aren't tuning out of garbage and tuning into a truly exemplary media outlet for the truly informed, CSPAN1, 2, 3 & cspan.org
Is it time to tune out World News Tonight and tune into The Daily Show? Professor Fox doesn't think so, saying that "we should probably be concerned about both of those sources, because neither one is particularly substantive. It's a bottom-line industry and ratings-driven. We live in an 'infotainment' society, and there certainly are a number of other sources available."
IMHO, Like the mainstream press, and the Daily Show and sadly I think slashdot.org; We see the same old non-substantive dripple, churned out and gobbled up hook, line and sinker by the feeble minded youth and adults of our modern society...
NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, "et al" in the drive-by-media are all a by-product of an ill-informed, public school brainwashed populus...
I cannot believe so many