Geoffrey Baym

TL;DR: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as mentioned in this paper is a hybrid blend of comedy, news, and political conversation that is difficult to pigeon hole, and although the program often is dismissed as being "fake" news, its significance for political communication may run much deeper.

TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of international forms of news parody and political satire as they take shape across continents and cultures, and explore the semiotic labor that parody performs in deconstructing broadcast news and wider discourses of authority.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the origins and evolution of the Better Know a District (BKAD) segment on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, and argue that the segment interjects a measure of political content into a late-night landscape generally characterized by banal entertainment.

Abstract: If you are one of the “incredibly unsophisticated audience” members (who also happens to be a liberal elite, if being both simultaneously is even possible) of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, then you might know where the above quote is coming from. Recently, Jon Stewart, the most trusted newsperson in the post-Cronkite era, according to the 2009 online poll by Time, and Bernard Goldberg, political commentator for Fox News and the perpetuator of the myth of the liberal media, engaged in a battle. The dispute began when Stewart agreed with Fox for pointing out the way that mainstream media unfairly criticize and generalize about the few radical actions by Tea Partiers, yet pointed out how Fox commentators have repeatedly done the same to those on the left. Goldberg responded to Stewart the next day on The O’Reilly Factor by attacking Stewart’s credibility. He agreed with Stewart’s criticism, but then demanded Stewart be as tough toward his liberal guests (like Frank Rich, who, according to Stewart, hasn’t