Its Funny because its True: The Role of Comedy in the Alternative Media
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- I get my news from a fake anchor: Comedy news programs
- Jon Stewart's The Daily Show
- The Colbert Report: The guise of a political platform
- Mustering a positive reaction
- All the fake news thats fit to print: Satire newspapers and cartoons
- Print media's use of comedy as a way of expressing a political viewpoint
- Political cartoons in print media
- Make them laugh: The link between comedy and the alternative press
- Comedy being used by the disenfranchised
- Video as a way to get the point across quite succinctly
- No one will take you seriously: The problems with political comedy
- The lack of 'non white' correspondents on The Daily Show
- The panel discussion at the WAM conference
- But the couch is so comfortable: The first step
- Works cited
Abstract
Humor is a powerful tool that can be harnessed by the alternative media in an effort to give a voice to the disenfranchised and to attract an audience for alternative thought. For the purposes of this project, "alternative media" is an amorphous term that can be applied to any media that is owned by an independent company rather than a mainstream corporation or media that gives significant attention to views not normally expressed by that of the mainstream. This project will examine the uses and reactions to comedy in the alternative media, as well as study the alternative media that use comedy as a way to usurp the mainstream media's hold on the way news is delivered and discussed. These forms will include television, such as news spoof shows The Daily Show and The Colbert Report and printed sources, such as the satirical newspaper The Onion and several alternative political cartoons.
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