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    Stewart addresses topics through his talk show on the Daily Show. He brings up important arguments that are going on in our country and shows how ridiculous they are by his use of humor. Through his political influence and controversial work, Jon Stewart renewed the success of The Daily Show with his unusual use of satire that connected with the younger generation. Before Stewart made his big break on the Daily Show, he was a stand-up comedian doing all shows that he could. This led him to the network

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    The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has aired on Comedy Central for over ten years. The question of it being considered “real news” or not has been raised among many news outlets across the country. The opening of The Daily Show appears to be like any other news program we would see on other news broadcasts. The opening of the program has similar imagery to other news programs. The use of the colors red and blue not only symbolizes the Democratic and Republican Parties, but also symbolizes America

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    The Daily Show pronounces itself as a fake news program, and it pulls its comedy and satire from current news reports, politicians, media companies, and often, features of the show itself. The show usually begins with an extended monologue from host, Jon Stewart, communicating new headlines and regularly includes discussions with several correspondents, who assume ridiculous or amusingly overstated takes on recent events against Stewart's straightforward character. The concluding segment contains

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    Is Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” good or bad for the American Democracy? I think it's good because I don’t think it’s affecting the Democracy in any way. Yeah, he offends some people that he is suppose to do for his job. To be telling society, the news in hilarious talking making / telling them what he thinks about it. To me it’s a great show. It clears up all of the lies and mistrepts that the “government/Democracy intitle”. One reason why the Jon Stewart’s of citizens (mostly young ones) gain

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    propaganda as undermining reason. Propaganda works with the emotions to get a mass to do a certain action. Since propaganda tries to remain hidden, are there any in the world who see it and try to uncover such propaganda? Satirical television and radio shows as well as newspapers challenge the conceptions of which we take for granted and of which are propaganda. How does satire function in relation to propaganda? First, one must define propaganda and since many have done so already, I shall use the

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    States due to President Trump’s travel ban!” Is this report fake news? Yes! The Iraqi man’s mother died before Trump ever signed the executive order related to the travel ban. We have become inundated with fake news by many forums. We have comedy shows that produce news parodies of actual events calling themselves fake news. Social media providing 24/7 click bait of fake news. Fake news is now exposing traditional news journalist for their inaccuracies, biases, and half-truths; many now view them

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    that I chose for the purpose of this assignment is the Jon Stewart discussion on the Ferguson, Missouri coverage. Here, Jon, the satirist is an arbiter of American political media, and as a media critic, he is also the former television host of The Daily Show which is a satirical news program that airs on Comedy Central. In the video, Jon Stewart critiqued topics revolving around the shooting of teenager Michael Brown by the police. The topics ranged from police brutality, black lives matter, negative

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    Political Satire

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    Argument Essay Political satire is ubiquitous in United States. Social media are presenting uncountable numbers of political satires and tweets. As Iain Ellis, who has a Ph.D in American Culture Studies, said, “Today’s political humor infects, inflects, and injects into our national state of affairs”(Ellis 150). In relation to Ellis’ quote, the idea of utilizing humor as a political tool subverted my perception on humor, and such utilization has spread through not only in democratic countries, but

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    but also it is found in TV shows such as the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the Colbert report, and Saturday night live and their fake news segment called “Weekend Update” are prime examples of political satire; they use the current events

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    information. Non-traditional news programs such as the Daily Show and the Colbert Report have become increasingly popular. Although these shows may be dismissed by some as legitimate news sources, studies show viewers of Stewart and Colbert are among the best informed in the country. Another example of non-traditional media that is fairly new is that of John Oliver, a British comedian, who became a star when he filled in for Jon Stewart on The Daily Show for a few

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