‘The Daily Show’ Effect: Why We Love (and Trust) Fake News
“The Daily Show” and other fake news programs seem more real than real news these days. When did comedy become so serious?
These are interesting times we’re living in. The 24-hour news channels are inundating us with urgent breaking news stories. Sometimes, they do so accurately, but often times they’re just using urgency for the sake of ratings – which, I guess, are urgent in their own way.
Thank goodness we can find reprieve from the oh-so-serious news agencies with programs like “The Daily Show”, “The Colbert Report” and John Oliver’s “Last Week …