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Zeus posted...

For example, John Oliver is a propaganda machine, but I would expect a lot of people go into that expecting massive amounts of bias and misleading statements. It's only a problem when people take him at face value, which I'm sure a certain percent of his audience does -- but, as a LWT viewer myself, I know that a lot of people don't.

I feel like I disagree. If only because I remember back in the day when they'd do polls and younger viewers would say that The Daily Show was literally the only news they watched, and they pretty clearly took more or less everything at face value.

Basically, it's the difference between seeing something as actual news being presented humorously versus seeing it as pure comedy that's just based on current events. I honestly think most people fall into the former camp at this point, which is why I felt like Jon Stewart was absolutely full of shit when he said he had absolutely no journalistic responsibility because he was a comedian, and hypocritical as fuck when he called out other "infotainment" news programs for not having journalistic responsibility.

Though at this point, I'm not even sure how many young people are even watching shows like TDS or LWT. These days most of them are probably just getting their news through Twitter.
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