The Stewart/Colbert Effect: Essays on the Real Impacts of by Amarnath Amarasingam,Robert W. McChesney

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By Amarnath Amarasingam,Robert W. McChesney

The day-by-day exhibit with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report have attracted a lot curiosity lately from renowned audiences in addition to students in quite a few disciplines. either Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were named on Time magazine’s record of the main influential humans on the planet. the 10 essays during this interdisciplinary assortment discover the problems engendered through the recognition of leisure information, together with the position of satire in politics, the declining point of belief in conventional resources of media, the exhibits’ cathartic or informational functionality, and the ways that those exhibits impact public opinion.
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