In our English class, we had a few
different readings this week, one came from warner this piece was titled political
culture jamming, in this piece the issue of entertainment news was covered. Entertainment
news can be a big problem in our culture if there are undedicated and not know
what to believe then they can be easily misled by the political media that we
have. Many people currently have problems with dissociating their way of
thought from a political party. If an individual believes in one policy that a
party supports they sometimes think that they must follow that party in
everything they believe in. this can lead to a strong ostracizing of Americans.
Some of the news that we have is clearly true, but some such as the comical
satire that is often seen on the daily show or on the show that features Stephen
Colbert or even bill Maher can tend to be more shows that try for a laugh
instead of shows that are meant to inform the public. This can be a serious
problem, because getting news from trust worthy organizations becomes harder
when someone doesn’t know what is real news, and exactly how much the “news”
that is reported by popular T.V shows can be biased. I do not see myself
identifying with people who tend to get their news from comical news
broadcasts, and I don’t tend to enjoy the comical news broadcasts that dominate
primetime because they tend to be very pointed towards a very liberal audience.
Trevor Noah is also another comedian who points his comedy at the conservative right
ring and trump. I find his annoying because when people take up and really run
with a political party they tend to ostracize an entire side of the topic by
oversimplifying the topic and applying their own thought pattern whether it
fits the topic and the conversation at hand. To have a healthy and rational
political discussion it is required that people at least agree on the premise
of what they are arguing about and therefore comedy news will never work. Comedy
is taking something that seems striking or un predicted and benign it against
what people consider to be normal. This will involve oversimplifying the issue
and not fully representing the other side which doesn’t allow an open dialoged
to happen, this can be both dangerous to completely ignore people and unhealthy
for the culture because without open communication from both sides of an issue
no progress can be made.
I agree with Cooper on many of the points he brought up. The satirical news pieces are pointed at one side more than the other. It is very rare to find these pieces poking fun at liberals and their ideas. In society today, liberal ideas have become much more common and it is very controversial to involve in comedy. However, I do not agree with Cooper in the sense that these satirical news pieces make it more complicated to find the real news. I personally think that it is very simple to pick out the true from the false news pieces. I also enjoy these comical pieces, unlike Cooper. While I know and can acknowledge that these are not true, I do find them entertaining. If you are able to separate and put aside the fact that it may not agree with your opinions, they are funny pieces. I do however agree that if you are more conservative on the political scale, it is making fun of your ideas and beliefs more than others’.
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