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    issue or mocking the absurdity of a situation. The show concludes with a guest interview either for promotion of a recent work or for discussion on a current political issue. Due to its blended nature as both a comedy and news show, The Daily Show has been able to ignore both news media and comedy conventions, occupying a space that would make most news shows wince and journalists hesitate. Many scholars and media critics debate whether the show is fake news or reliable journalism. Although there

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    Daily Show Satire

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    Have you ever heard about the daily show? Jon Stewarts the daily show good or bad for American democracy? I think is good because the news that we have now is boring and more people would watch it now then the regular news. I think people will get more entertained and not bored. Making people watch it and liking it. Sometimes you have to get up and watch the news. Its not very entertaining to you so you just get up and do something else. The news we have now tells us how the day is going to be or

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    The Daily Show is on the congressional record. It occurred during a debate on the Blunt Amendment, which would allow employers to decline to provide birth control as part of their health care plans. On February 28th, 2012 California Senator Barbara boxer attempted to quote The Daily Show bid on the floor of the senate. Senator Boxer said: “Jon Stewart took this issue on and said: Well, I’ll tell you something, I love Blunt Amendment because he says I am an employer and I believe that humor is

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    In a “Saturday Night Live” and Comedy Central “The Daily Show” both of the video are part of democracy. These videos are show the satires to show what these people do in their democratic way. In Comedy Central “The Daily Show” it was showing what Koch brothers do with their dark money industry (Democalypse south by south mess: ad of brothers. Video 1:36). And make fun about the company which make us feel like a scam or tricking us. In “Saturday Night Live” the video was a joke about what people will

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    The utilization of The Daily Show In the article, “The Good, the Bad, and The Daily Show”, Jason Zinser, a teacher at the University of North Florida, discusses the coverage of “fake” entertainment news. Zinser effectively argues the different benefits and disadvantages of entertaining news. When reading this article, one can find that Zinser uses emotional appeals to create a sense of intentness to his readers, uses ethical appeals to create trust from his readers, and uses logical appeals to inform

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    comedian who has freedom of speech when ever he feels its necessary to speak on things in public. “The Daily Show” is good for entertainment and information that some people don’t know nothing about. Its not ruining American Democracy just because he points the mistakes the government makes. I even make fun of it myself sometimes. I will be simplifying my reasons on why Jon Stewart’s “ The daily Show” is not bad is a good, entertaining program. Also, I will be using accurate evidence from the information

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    4. After watching the Daily Show interview with Jim Cramer, I believe that Jon Stewart’s questions were fair as he was trying to get Cramer to confess CNBC’s faults during the financial crisis and his contributions to them. One instance of this was Stewart calling out CNBC for creating an unrealistic image of the market by covering up the embezzlement scandals and failing to expose the actions of those behind it, despite their frequent interview appearances. I agree with Stewart in this argument

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    Not a Laughing Matter: The Negative Effects of Satirical News When Jon Stewart announced his retirement from The Daily Show in 2015, headlines lamented the end of reason in the news. A New Yorker article declared that “The last hope for bringing some rationality to the 2016 Presidential field died” (Sorkin). In other instances, Jon Stewart has been compared to Walter Cronkite and Edward Murrow, who are famed for not only their voices that reached out to the nation but also their journalism that

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    be leaving “The Daily Show.” His last show is scheduled to be this August 6th and it will undoubtedly have huge ratings as millions watch him for the last time in the hosting role that he honed for two decades. There was endless speculation about who would be replacing him until comedian Trevor Noah was finally announced end of this past March who will be filling his huge comedic shoes this coming September. It is worth taking a look at who else was offered the job of Daily Show host and thinking

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    In the Daily Show video with Jon Stewart “Everybody Hates U.S.”, Stewart satirically opposes the reports that say that the U.S. has failed to accept all the deaths that have occurred in Pakistan with the drone strikes. The countries, France and Germany have also found that the U.S. NSA has been spying on them for many years. Stewart distinguishes the drone strikes that occurred in Pakistan through the use of sarcasm to show the audience about how absurd the situation is. Stewart also uses many other

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