Sunday, May 15, 2005
Is Fake News Better Than Real News?
Source: The Free Liberal Much has been made about the alleged biases of various cable news networks. Fox News Channel is of course the Republican, pro-Bush, flag-waving channel and CNN is known among conservatives as the “Clinton News Network” and is believed to be a handmaiden of the Democratic Party. Sure, there are other cable news stations out there, most notably MSNBC, but perhaps the best cable “news” show really isn’t “news” at all. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is – through critical analysis and biting jokes at the expense of politicians and their media lapdogs (especially cable news) – filling a critical void that has been completely ignored within the mainstream media.
Stewart’s influence is unmistakable and it is not likely to wane in the near future. According to February 2005 figures from Nielsen Media Research, new episodes of the show attracted an average of 1.5 million viewers for the month – up 32 percent from February 2004. That was more than twice the size of CNN’s average prime time audience that month and almost equal to the prime time viewership for the Fox News Channel. Here’s hoping Stewart will be around for several more years using his program as a platform to poke his media counterparts and politicians in elected office in the eye.
Read the complete article HERE.
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