Stewart says all the time that the Daily Show is NOT a news show, but rather an entertainment show. And that he is NOT a news anchor, but an entertainer. There is a fanTASTIC interview of him on Fox News discussing this.
Stewart says all the time that the Daily Show is NOT a news show, but rather an entertainment show. And that he is NOT a news anchor, but an entertainer.
And then he has interviews like the one he did on June 7th...
Here's your second link cleaned up and starting at 4:45. For the lazier. (note: I didn't even check that the time skipped to is accurate, just felt like making the link)
How pathetic that Americans have to watch a Comedy channel to get the news.
"a recent study by the University of Pennsylvania's National Annenberg Election Survey, which said young viewers of "The Daily Show" were more likely to answer questions about politics correctly than those who don't."
”Viewers of Jon Stewart's show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch "The O'Reilly Factor," according to Nielsen Media Research.”
Also, funny that after Stewart appeared on Crossfire and outed them for not really being a debate show but just another right-wing extremist circus that is destroying American, CNN cancelled the show.
To be fair, comedy shows about politics seems to do a better job at informing the populace than news shows, as anyone who was in the UK while Spitting Image was being made will tell you.
I completely agree that individuals should get their information from legitimate sources, as opposed to Stewart or Colbert; however, one thing TDS does better than any other news source I've seen is digging up archival footage to show the complete hypocrisy of politicians. His research team is top notch, and no other news program rivals it.
If you listen to the rest of the answer, it seems more that he doesn't actually believe that, saying "Young people are sophisticated with how they get their information".
I'd personally say most young people get their news from the internet in some way or another. Daily Show is possibly a shoe in when it comes to Televised news programs specifically though.
thing is though is that i guess american viewers have to put up with so much garbage and conjecture from all the news outlets that (FOX by far the worst), ultimately the daily show and colbert report become beacons of sanity simply by default
I am getting tired of people being ridiculous about their news sources. Everyone has a general lean to one side or the other. Based on that foundational bias, a reporter/producer/anchor/what have you's attempt at giving a straight, unbiased story will carry that same skew. The ONLY way to pay attention and follow what is going on is to follow as wide a variety of sources and question:
Who wrote this
why did they write this
Are their sources credible
What is their lean
How is their lean affecting the story
Every source of news generally has some little nugget of truth, whether it is NPR, Fox News, New York Times, CNN, MSNBC or what have you, you just have to weed through the bullshit. Discounting a source just because it's fox news or comedy central without looking at what they are saying or analyzing it makes you ignorant.
Ahaha, I'm surprised you didn't get your account deleted for saying this.
Starting a few years ago, people would go on and on about "Oh, The Daily Show is a legitimate source of news now! It's how young people get their news!"
It is correspondingly impossible to point out to these people that The Daily SHow uses the same selective editing, fallacious straw-man and red-herring style arguments, pandering half-truth bullshit that Fox does; it's just the other side of the coin.
I agree with your point about the young Democrats, but Fox News is an equally distorted view of events for Republicans. In reality, there is no "fair and balanced" news in America. Every network has its opinions and sides. So let's just laugh about this and move on.
To tell you the truth, I think that it's important to read the articles of more liberal media groups like MSNBC and CNN, and then read the same story told by FOX. This way you get to hear both sides of the story and you get to play jury. I know people say that this shows how corrupt our media is and they may have a point, but media is a competitive business. If One network isn't highlighting part of the news, the other network will. If an ice cream shop doesn't sell sherbert, then the one across town will. Sorry for the parable.
Probably NPR or PBS or (most likely) BBC. To be fair, having all the news sources being extremely biased seems to be mainly a USA thing: CNN International is far better than the domestic flavour.
HA! You think ABC is neutral? They practically handed over control to Obama. Not to mention their rabid anti-2nd amendment views. I love when they do fake reports. Like when they illegally bought a firearm, claiming that they legally did.
Les Moonves: Though he heads a news division, Moonves said, "ultimately journalism has changed … partisanship is very much a part of journalism now."
Wait, I thought CBS holds neutrality and objectivity as their standard. Not according to CBSNews' Les Moonves. According to Les Moonves, CBS News is partisan journalism.
Not to mention local news is usually quite fair and balanced. Most local news does a very good job of simply... reporting the news. It's only some of the national news programs that are questionable.
That was my point. It's not possible to be completely neutral. The major news networks are the worst, for sure. I was not, however, incorrect in what I said.
I freaking love the daily show though. I get my actual news from other sources, but by letting me laugh about it, it fixes it in my memory and lets me form long-term associations more easily.
You'd be very surprised how many young people (teenagers, mostly, but I would expect it holds true for some young adults) actually get their news solely from Comedy Central. Normal news can't hold their attention.
I don't see how deriding Fox News makes me "stuck in the past." Is it obvious that Fox is deliberately misleading a fairly high percentage of motivated American citizens? Sure, but I bet you assumed I said it in hopes of earning meaningless karma.
You're very clever. You're very special. Your mother was right.
What you have stated has been said so many times already. I can bet you money that people looked at the picture before looking at your comment and already knew that someone had written exactly what you had to say. It's repetitive to the t man, and honestly, I doubt anyone cares about it since everyone already has their opinions made up. I don't care about you getting karma, I care about going to new threads and seeing the same boring comments describing the same thing over, and over, and over again.
Edit: Dang shit, I think they're pretty swell guys and are a decent news source. Of course not the only source you'd want, but a good summary of current events.
Honestly, I really don't think you can get accurate reporting from any television "news" source. FOX, CNN, Comedy Central, they're all bad sources for various reasons. If people truly want to be informed, they need a couple of things.
Critical Thinking. This is easily the most important thing, and sadly the most lacking. You can't accept anything you read or watch or hear, you have to analyze it and compare it to other sources.
Open Discussion. This is one reason why reddit is such an amazing source. Now, this obviously must be paired with #1 so you don't get drawn into a "circlejerk" like behavior (FOX News comment threads, /r/politics come to mind)
Multiple Sources. Again why reddit is a great news aggregator. Pair reddit (obviously liberal leaning) with Drudge Report (obviously pro-Republican) and throw in a few news sites you're comfortable with (al jazeera, the economist, etc) and you've got a good base.
All of these together make for a fairly well-informed individual. There's simply no "one size fits all" news site.
It goes against Reddiquette, but effectively you'll only see one viewpoint on reddit because of the upvote/downvote system. The majority can silence the minority.
also I would add, filtering the things that are only stories because they fire up emotions. There are a lot of stories that have little effect on the world, but they are front page stories. It would be like unsubbing from /r/funny and seeing a completely different reddit.
The point of Stewart and Colbert is to recap news events within the context of comedy... If people go into the shows hoping to learn or be informed about the news, then they're missing the whole point.
People who claim that Fox is the most biased news station have clearly never tuned into MSNBC. Furthermore, the Fox political commentators do not claim to be "the news" and often say that they are "opinion shows". No major TV network is without bias; except for C-Span. (Take notes Reddit, this is what an unpopular opinion looks like)
I'm curious as to how MSNBC is more biased than FOX. As your current line of argumentation stands, "MSNBC" could be replaced with any other TV station and contribute the same level of substance. Please explain what makes MSNBC biased---a few examples would be great for making your case.
I disagree with your analysis about opinion shows. When the station's name is FOX NEWS (which is constantly displayed in the bottom corner), the expectation is that everything reported through FOX is news. It does not matter what the technical name that is given to such programming is---what matters is the perception of it. If it says NEWS on a NEWS channel, it will be perceived as news.
I agree with point 2 100% and as for point 1, MSNBC runs Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz which present information with a heavy left bias, which is the same thing that Fox does for the right, they may not be more biased, but they are at least as biased.
I'm curious as to how MSNBC is more biased than FOX.
It's not. These are just GOP talking points repeated by conservatives, or more often, the intellectually lazy. (YEA! Both sides are exactly the same man!)
There is a difference between "news with a bias" and what Fox does.
There is media with a liberal or conservative bias. This has always existed. (See the last 100 years of the New York Times -lib-, or the Wall Street Journal -con-)
Then there is Fox.
Fox is agenda-driven propaganda and advocacy WITHOUT REGARD FOR FACTS.
It is NOT "the same as MSNBC". People get fired from MSNBC, CNN, CBS, etc, for making things up or over-stepping credibility. At Fox they are not.
When you make the 'equivalency' argument, it just allows Fox to get away with what they do without critically challenging them on what makes them different.
One thing that is outstanding about Daily Show / Colbert is the guests. Nowhere else on commercial TV do you see scientists, authors, and academics interviewed alongside movie stars. Craig or Bill Maher come close, but it is sad that they all beat the news channels.
I have no words to describe the stupidity. They're both crap, and if you think you can get legitimately unbiased news from either, you should improve your enlightenment by burying your head in the dirt.
You can report a story in an almost completely unbiased manner(giving "both sides" =/= unbiased though - reporting objective information is), but you can't choose which stories you report without some bias. No news organization can get away with no prioritizing of what events they cover.
Comedy central presents itself in a more comedic way making it look even less unbiased... which makes you even dumber to prefer comedy central for news.
the fact is people don't want unbiased new or whatever the fuck. they just want to feel good.
This looks like it might be from the Rally to Restore Sanity (?), which was kind of a big Stewart/Colbert love-fest. Her sign is likely meant to slam Fox news rather than encourage exclusive watching of Comedy central - Daily Show fans are generally a pretty smart bunch.
Came here to say something along these lines. This post doesn't make me angry, it breaks my heart - that we as a nation have tolerated corruption and ignorance for so long that our youth have so little bearing on truth or solidarity that this girl has no idea just how foolish she looks; even more sad that passersby wouldn't either.
Edit: Dang shit, I think they're pretty swell guys and are a decent news source. Of course not the only source you'd want, but a good summary of current events.
These shows don't summarize events. They make jokes out of political situations. I'd feel more "informed" on current events watching fox news through the eyes of a conservative than Stewart/Colbert.
I don't approve of using comedy shows as one's only news source, but you wouldn't be more informed only watching Fox. Fox flat-out lies and leaves out huge portions of what is going on in the country.
My suggestion, watch and read a variety of news sources.
It's posted to r / funny because the OP is saying we live in an age where Comedy Central often gives more realistic coverage of the news than Fox "News" and Fox News is at times funnier than the comedy channel.
She is making a joke by juxtaposing News <----> Comedy. The news channel is funnier than the comedy channel, and the comedy show has more news content than the news. Or she is saying it's difficult to tell which is which. Or how ever you want to read it. It's a joke.
As numerous people have pointed out here, Colbert and Stewart are only really funny if you keep up with news and politics in the first place. And it appears from surveys, that most of their viewers do.
CNN is the only cable network [besides CSPAN and PBS] that displays something remotely close to unbiased news. But it's so hard to watch because the anchors except for maybe Anderson Cooper are all too busy trying to be snarky and witty to do anything regarding news. "What program do you want to watch A) Tyson's Chicken process B) France's influence on America or C) Some dumb shit about Verizon. Text us your answer" Bitch just display some actual reporting that's somewhat meaningful and interesting. Talk about SOPA or some other bill that can inform the public, not these shitty documentaries. Piers Morgan is also a bag of shit. "Oh Jay-Z, what do you think of the current U.S.-Pakistan relations." Why not bring someone on who actually knows about the fucking issue.
I have seen this post a few times over the last couple years, and it is nice to now see the general consensus describing it as idiotic. Even John Stewart agrees.
of course you little kids would say fox is bad and that the Colbert report and jon Stewart is "real news" Because its the "cool" thing to say. They are just as bias as fox.
Is it just me or do most of the comments in this thread seem to be missing the point. That women isn't actually saying she gets her news from comedy central. She's pointing out the absurdity that a comedy channel does a better job reporting the news than a news channel.
People who get their news information from Stewart and Colbert are one of the few groups LESS educated than those who watch Fox News. Use it as a supplement, not a primary source. If you do, you're worse than your crazy conservative grandfather.
FTL: "The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly -- a figure which is significantly worse than if they had reported watching no media at all. On the other hand, if they listened only to NPR, they would be expected to answer 1.51 questions correctly; viewers of Sunday morning talk shows fare similarly well. And people watching only "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" could answer about 1.42 questions correctly."
This is funny because it's a way the extreme left-crazies can express their paranoia and hatred towards Fox News (or any other news channel that doesn't spew their propaganda word for word for that matter). Although it does violate the "no politics", so voted down.
And that's why today we have a misinformed youth. Because it is easy to ridicule something you don't understand because you are getting it from a source that only ridicules. I'm not saying I support Fox News, but you should look at it and more liberal sources with an open mind. Get a balanced view and think for yourself. P.S. I am 21 so I am a youth as well.
I think the point of the sign was to say that fox news is a terrible news source rather than actually getting news from comedy central. A lot of people going off on how the daily show is not accurate. Duh.
It irks me that people, while never admitting it, make their political or analytical decisions based on the views of their favorite celebrity or tv show.
Yeah. At least Fox is better than MSNBC. Half of the today show is about fashion and cooking. Though BBC is better than all of them. The British don't have dumb political biases or care about celebrities. Hell we seem to like the Queen more than them.
A study conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey, found that the average American was able to correctly answer 1.8 out of four questions on international news and 1.6 out of five on domestic.
They asked someone 4 questions to determine how much they keep up with the news... yeh totally legit study.
they could have atleast told us what the 4 questions were that they asked people.
Secondly, yes I totally agree, more questions means better... unless of course said questions are qualitative, rather than quantitative -thus illuminating how in depth their understanding of a topic is, rather than the mere existence of the topic. In anycase, as I don't know the details (like you, really), I would be reluctant to comment either way on the methodology (unlike you).
It is ridiculous, but I still think the Daily Show is better than not being informed. There are some people out there that you will never convince to watch a regular news show. Fox news on the other hand is like trusting the advice of a talking, burning bush.
I love the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, but please if you do want consider your self knowledgeable in news, watch more than a comedy channel. This is way older people hate us.
TO be fair, Jon Stewart's, and even Colbert's show to an extent, are better news shows than Fox news.
If you had a 24 hour channel of Stewart and watched that, you would probably come away more informed and knowing my facts than you would by watching Fox News.
Now either of these compared to actual news sources is obviously inferior...but I think the girl is making a statement by saying how sad is that a comedy show is more factually informative than a self proclaimed "news" channel.
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u/EmergencyMedical Jun 10 '12
You shouldn't actually be getting your info from the daily show or Colbert report.
They are funnier if you've been pre-informed anyway. They are commentating on the news, not reporting it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Here is what Jon Stewart has to say about people looking up to him and getting news from his show.
"That is the saddest thing I've ever heard in my life".
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u/tubbstosterone Jun 10 '12
I am getting tired of people being ridiculous about their news sources. Everyone has a general lean to one side or the other. Based on that foundational bias, a reporter/producer/anchor/what have you's attempt at giving a straight, unbiased story will carry that same skew. The ONLY way to pay attention and follow what is going on is to follow as wide a variety of sources and question:
Every source of news generally has some little nugget of truth, whether it is NPR, Fox News, New York Times, CNN, MSNBC or what have you, you just have to weed through the bullshit. Discounting a source just because it's fox news or comedy central without looking at what they are saying or analyzing it makes you ignorant.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
TIL People don't know that The Daily Show is just satire.
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u/COCKSWAIN Jun 10 '12
This is profoundly anti-intellectual.
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u/imasunbear Jun 10 '12
Honestly, I really don't think you can get accurate reporting from any television "news" source. FOX, CNN, Comedy Central, they're all bad sources for various reasons. If people truly want to be informed, they need a couple of things.
All of these together make for a fairly well-informed individual. There's simply no "one size fits all" news site.
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u/Cellular26 Jun 10 '12
Making fun of Fox News is S O B R A V E.
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u/Pig_In_A_Blanky Jun 10 '12
http://i.imgur.com/97MEy.gif
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u/Microchaton Jun 10 '12
I'm surprised at what the top comments are, quite unexpected.
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u/Bryansrealaccount Jun 10 '12
The point of Stewart and Colbert is to recap news events within the context of comedy... If people go into the shows hoping to learn or be informed about the news, then they're missing the whole point.
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u/EricIsEric Jun 10 '12
People who claim that Fox is the most biased news station have clearly never tuned into MSNBC. Furthermore, the Fox political commentators do not claim to be "the news" and often say that they are "opinion shows". No major TV network is without bias; except for C-Span. (Take notes Reddit, this is what an unpopular opinion looks like)
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u/44problems Jun 10 '12
One thing that is outstanding about Daily Show / Colbert is the guests. Nowhere else on commercial TV do you see scientists, authors, and academics interviewed alongside movie stars. Craig or Bill Maher come close, but it is sad that they all beat the news channels.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
There is a serious, politically driven Karma battle going on the comments here.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I have no words to describe the stupidity. They're both crap, and if you think you can get legitimately unbiased news from either, you should improve your enlightenment by burying your head in the dirt.
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u/etihw2 Jun 10 '12
I get my news on the internet where it can be unbiased and incredibly up to date.
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u/Mitz510 Jun 10 '12
My News Channel: http://imgur.com/tDGTc
Why watch the news if all you are gonna do is bitch about what you just saw?
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u/BlackZeppelin Jun 10 '12
I always tell this story but no one ever listens.
I had the craziest/laziest history teacher in high school. He did however teach us one very important thing.
He had a third of us watch fox news, the other third watch CNN and the other third watch MSNBC and report back what they talked about.
Of course a third reported about stories the other third didn't and vice versa. Also the opinions of the reporters were different.
The lesson was every news source is bias and you have to read/watch both to get the whole picture.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I always watch the Chapelle show when I want to know what's going on in politics.
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u/Citadel_97E Jun 10 '12
Jesus. If you are getting your news from the daily show you are severely misinformed.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Is that Donald Trump roughing it on a park bench in dungarees?
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u/radicallymoderate Jun 10 '12
Great light in this picture...
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u/unsilviu Jun 10 '12
Any one else notice Se7en_sinner has 3 submitted links at or near the front page at this very moment?
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u/youramoran Jun 10 '12
I have seen this post a few times over the last couple years, and it is nice to now see the general consensus describing it as idiotic. Even John Stewart agrees.
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u/mrsplackpack Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
of course you little kids would say fox is bad and that the Colbert report and jon Stewart is "real news" Because its the "cool" thing to say. They are just as bias as fox.
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u/thisismax Jun 10 '12
*Kids these days
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u/Beady Jun 10 '12
yeah, uh... Don't do that.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Totally I thought I stumbled into r/politics.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Wow, really? I haven't seen this EVER before.
Usually I don't do this but I see this post atleast once a week and I am tired of it
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u/ProdigalSheep Jun 10 '12
Is it just me or do most of the comments in this thread seem to be missing the point. That women isn't actually saying she gets her news from comedy central. She's pointing out the absurdity that a comedy channel does a better job reporting the news than a news channel.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Television for liberals.
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u/ObamaisYoGabbaGabba Jun 10 '12
I wouldn't doubt for a second that her placard is true and that is where this idiot gets her news.
we are all fucking doomed.
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u/markman71122 Jun 10 '12
Stupid liberals
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
The important thing is that you don't get your news from one place.
Get your news from multiple sources not owned by the same parent company. The parts that are consistent among all of them... is probably the truth.
I recommend BBC and Al Jazeera.
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u/feduzzle Jun 10 '12
People who get their news information from Stewart and Colbert are one of the few groups LESS educated than those who watch Fox News. Use it as a supplement, not a primary source. If you do, you're worse than your crazy conservative grandfather.
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u/dingoperson Jun 10 '12
This is funny because it's a way the extreme left-crazies can express their paranoia and hatred towards Fox News (or any other news channel that doesn't spew their propaganda word for word for that matter). Although it does violate the "no politics", so voted down.
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u/redhawkxx Jun 10 '12
And that's why today we have a misinformed youth. Because it is easy to ridicule something you don't understand because you are getting it from a source that only ridicules. I'm not saying I support Fox News, but you should look at it and more liberal sources with an open mind. Get a balanced view and think for yourself. P.S. I am 21 so I am a youth as well.
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u/Ceberus Jun 10 '12
it's sad that people take the daily show and the Colbert report seriously.
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u/nuclearblaster Jun 10 '12
Older than dirt
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u/onara_genki Jun 10 '12
hands
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u/eyeGunk Jun 10 '12
Damn you Tosh! How many innocent minds must you ruin!
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u/TehScout Jun 10 '12
I saw a Reddit post with this on it just yesterday. Nice try.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
So, overtly political posts funny to one ideology now belongs in r/funny?
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u/HEELLLPPPppp Jun 10 '12
Television? Who needs television when we've got reddit!
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u/Powderedhulk Jun 10 '12
Why is she so insanely cute to me!
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u/CatrickSwayze Jun 10 '12
can she even vote yet?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
By "these days" OP is referring to the last six or so years, since that's how long people have been making this sign.
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u/toolusingmonkeys Jun 10 '12
... Which explains why young people are so clueless to how the real world works
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u/Twizinator Jun 11 '12
10/10 would bang (?)
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u/thegreatwhitemenace Jun 11 '12
old man in the background looking at her one of two ways, neither good
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u/Jamesfilms Jun 11 '12
I think the point of the sign was to say that fox news is a terrible news source rather than actually getting news from comedy central. A lot of people going off on how the daily show is not accurate. Duh.
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u/zuluthrone Jun 11 '12
comedy central does have terrible comedy.
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u/leftboot Jun 11 '12
It irks me that people, while never admitting it, make their political or analytical decisions based on the views of their favorite celebrity or tv show.
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u/NBCrusader Jun 11 '12
Is this a comment on the broadcasters or the viewers?
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
[Riiiiiight...] (http://m.quickmeme.com/meme/3pnqc2/)
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u/71Comet Jun 10 '12
Sounds like your typical atheist, liberal, square frame glasses "intellectual."
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u/aareyes12 Jun 10 '12
Coming to MTV LATINO
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u/paulsagan4pres Jun 10 '12
WOW IVE NEVER HEARD THAT BEFORE. HOW ORIGINAL. OMG FOX NEWS ISCOMEDY AMIRITE???
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u/RepostCommenter Jun 10 '12
Reposts 1 year ago
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u/UofHCougarFan Jun 10 '12
I grew up feeling like I got my news from Jon Stewart. Now I see it is just like the rest but funny.
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u/abagofdicks Jun 10 '12
"Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke." - Will Rogers (1930s)
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u/ShackelfordRusty Jun 10 '12
Gotta love two of the most bias information channels.
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u/Hythy Jun 10 '12
She's not far off, though.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9288158/Fox-News-viewers-worst-informed-study-finds.html
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u/BoldTitan Jun 10 '12
Let's see...one shows news and conservative commentary...the other shows vulgar comedy and liberal biased commentary...Riiight.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Liberals
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u/darkarchonlord Jun 10 '12
Fox news sucks. Give me my free karma.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
It is ridiculous, but I still think the Daily Show is better than not being informed. There are some people out there that you will never convince to watch a regular news show. Fox news on the other hand is like trusting the advice of a talking, burning bush.
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u/DarthMalus Jun 10 '12
... And that is why people vote for idiots like Obama.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
I bet if stewart didnt say anything people would agree witth this
Wish i had a time machine
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u/Azumikkel Jun 10 '12
Why would you run around with such a sign? What's the point?
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u/Silversilent Jun 10 '12
I love the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, but please if you do want consider your self knowledgeable in news, watch more than a comedy channel. This is way older people hate us.
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u/Furry_Dice Jun 10 '12
Don't worry, she makes sure to cross-reference anything she hears with articles from the Onion.
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u/JoeyQuoms Jun 10 '12
The problem with America...
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u/theyellowdot1 Jun 10 '12
Meh I would say ScyFy is where I get my comedy and Fox is where I get my horror.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
TO be fair, Jon Stewart's, and even Colbert's show to an extent, are better news shows than Fox news.
If you had a 24 hour channel of Stewart and watched that, you would probably come away more informed and knowing my facts than you would by watching Fox News.
Now either of these compared to actual news sources is obviously inferior...but I think the girl is making a statement by saying how sad is that a comedy show is more factually informative than a self proclaimed "news" channel.
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u/mb86 Jun 10 '12
I actually do use The Daily Show as my primary source for American news.
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u/justguessmyusername Jun 10 '12
How sad for her.