In preparation for this article, I called Lance Bennett to discuss his current thoughts on political satire as a response to the failings of postmodern news. He brought my attention to the most recent edition of News: The Politics of Illusion.
You can imagine my delight when I turned to the final chapter outlining proposals for citizens, and read: “Find Sources of Perspective such as Political Comedy.”
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One thing you fail to mention: Satire actually caused political reaction. Congress passed legislation regarding 9/11Firefighters/Police. It may have been lip service legislation but they passed it and due to the efforts of Daily Show outrage.
Over several days Jon Stewart and staff hammered this topic.. I sensed their true outrage, legislation got passed.
I, also, find Stewart/O'Reilly conversations to be not only entertaining but enlightening. Stewart does not playdown to O' Reilly nor does O'Reilly fail to take on Stewart.. True political discourse of political differences.
#1 Posted by barry, CJR on Thu 4 Jul 2013 at 01:09 PM