Colbert vs. the morning shows
I remember a while back when one of the major networks changed their morning show format to be news, not fluff. They made fun of the traditional morning show format (including the one they were switching from) with lines like "Big doings over seas, but first - is your pet psychic? We'll find out". I don't remember which one of ABCBSNBC it was, but the change failed miserably and they switched back to being mostly fluff. Sigh.
A long time ago, wanting news in the morning, I had switched from the network fluff morning shows to NPR, where the news is the news. I'm fortunate to also have a local Air America (and Jones Network) affiliate that I can also listen to, where the satire requires knowing the actual news. Note - this is not the left version of right-wing talk radio where fabrications and opinion are paraded as factual news. Instead most Air America and Jones program indeed present actual fact as fact, then go on to present their opinion and satire as opinion and satire. What a change from the dribble of the Rushes, O'Lielies and Hannities of the world.
Anyhoo, the point of this post is supposed to be Colbert vs. the morning shows. Funny stuff:
posted by zblog at
4:00 PM
2 Comments:
Don't you think he got out of character for a second? When he goes like "he was joking which means he has a sense of humour, something journalists clearly don't. What a shocker!"
Most of the segment is in character, though.
I think he is absolutely wonderful. And that anyone that takes anything said in his program at face value is a lobotomized ass.
That said, you get more news on his program than in any of the morning "shows".
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C.E. Lopes, at 1:31 PM
Still seems in character to me.
And I couldn't have been more wrong about Colbert when he first launched his show. My assessment was that his "one trick show" would quickly become tiresome.
Totally wrong.
But saying that his viewers get more news than morning shows is not nearly as impressive as the survey that discovered that Daily Show viewers know more factual news than viewers of Fox News.
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zblog, at 2:05 PM
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