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fandomsecrets2012-09-29 03:17 pm
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(Anonymous) 2012-09-30 02:14 am (UTC)(link)But... they don't sum up. They present one very specific vision of events with one specific understanding of what's important - mostly, the same priorities and mental blind spots that cable news has (understandable, since they're mostly devoted to mocking cable news). They sum up a very specific subset of news: news that is deemed important to American politics by the cable news networks. Now, usually they're a little smarter than people on the cable news networks, but the focus is the same.
It's good that people are more interested in news now, and I really don't mean to come at anyone for only following fakenews. It's more that I worry about the extent to which American cable news serves the function of informing the people. I worry about the extent to which a very specific ideological understanding of the world is the only one that most people have access to. And I worry about the fact that people weren't interested in the news before Stewart & Colbert made it funny. It's not the fault of anyone watching the news, it's more the fault of the media culture that we have in America that created these effects.
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And lets face it, not everyone has oodles of time to watch the news/scour the web for news every day. And even if they did, would they? An interest in politics is a very healthy thing imo, but just because someone starts watching these shows for the lol's doesn't mean they can't gain some deeper curiosity about politics that they might further pursue.
And I worry about the fact that people weren't interested in the news before Stewart & Colbert made it funny.
Some people. I personally said I wasn't as interested, which is different. I do get what you're saying, but the fact is for many people politics are intimidating and they don't know where to start; they can quickly become overwhelmed. (Not saying that should necessarily stop people, but it can be an issue.) And, some people just hate the vitriol that political conversations seem to bring. Again, I'm not saying it isn't good to stay informed, because of course it is; but everyone has their own reasons for doing so or not doing so, and what are you going to do, force them to get involved?
Colbert and Stewart might be far from unbiased, but from what I've seen they do as good a job of bringing facts into their programs as real news networks. (Maybe better, in some cases.)
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(Anonymous) 2012-09-30 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)That shit is legitimately worrying to me. But it's definitely not the fault of any news consumer and I don't intend to try and make anyone feel guilty for not being better informed - I'm just saying, I guess, that these are legitimately negative things about the media culture in America that lead to people being poorly informed.
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What I'm trying to say is that it's kind of worrying that a pair of comedy shows are legitimately more thoughtful and better sources of news than most news programming in the United States, that it's worrying that politics is so depressing and so alienating and so full of hostility, and that even the more thoughtful popular news sources are still full of unconscious bias and present a very selective understanding of the world.
I agree. Not going to say I don't ever enjoy programs where there's a clear bias (some of MSNBC's coverage) because I'd be lying, but you're correct in that most news media is biased in one way or another. Of course I can see how that can be troubling, but at this point it just seems impossible that anything is ever going to change that. I suppose I've gotten used to the idea.