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,
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Strange bedfellows |h [electronic resource] : |b how late-night comedy turns democracy into a joke / |c Russell L. Peterson. |
| 260 | |a New Brunswick, N.J. : |b Rutgers University Press, |c c2008. | ||
| 300 | |a vii, 254 p., [8] p. of plates : |b ill. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-243) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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? | |
| 520 | |a 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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