Strange bedfellows how late-night comedy turns democracy into a joke /
A significant number of Americans get some of their "news" about politics and national affairs from comedy shows. Is "infotainment" a debasement, or a replacement, for traditional news outlets?
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
c2008.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Losing our religion
- "Showmen is devoid of politics": the roots of pseudo-satire and the rise of the comedy-industrial complex
- Film at 11:00, jokes at 11:30: topical comedy and the news
- The personal and the political
- Pay no attention to that man in front of the curtain
- Truth versus Truthiness; or, Looking for Mr. Smith
- For whom the bell dings
- Laughing all the way to the White House
- Irony is dead... long live satire?