Strange bedfellows : how late-night comedy turns democracy into a joke / / Russell L. Peterson.
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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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 254 p., [8] p. of plates :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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?