Mocking the News: How<i>The Daily Show with Jon Stewart</i>Holds Traditional Broadcast News Accountable

Painter, Chad; Hodges, Louis

doi:10.1080/08900523.2010.512824

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“…The current study investigates whether Zondag met Lubach's broadcast on TTIP stimulated journalistic reporting of this topic. The relationship between satire shows as this and journalism is tense (Feldman, 2007), because satirists regularly perform the role of media critic (Borden & Tew, 2007;Brewer & Marquardt, 2007), parody the news genre (Meddaugh, 2010), and hold the news media accountable for not living up to ethical or professional standards (Painter & Hodges, 2010). Moreover, journalists experience discomfort and struggle with the combination of entertainment and information that satirists display, especially when satirists exhibit "earnestness" in their presentation of topics (Carlson & Peifer, 2013).…”

Section: Intermedia Agenda-settingmentioning

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Agenda-Setting With Satire: How Political Satire Increased TTIP’s Saliency on the Public, Media, and Political Agenda

Boukes¹

2018

Political Communication

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Agenda-setting has mostly been investigated as the cognitive process set in motion by the salience of political issues in the traditional news media. The question, though, remained whether political entertainment shows-political satire, specifically-can also set the agenda. The current study investigates whether two episodes of Dutch satire show Zondag met Lubach (ZML) about the European Union-United States trade agreement Transatlantic Trade Investment and Partnership (TTIP) have triggered first-level agendasetting effects. For that purpose, three studies have been conducted to investigate the threestep agenda-setting process (i.e., learning, understanding, acting) from saliency in satire to saliency on the public agenda, but also on the media and political agenda. Study 1: A twowave panel survey shows that consumption of the satire show positively affected knowledge acquisition about TTIP, which is the first step in the cognitive process underlying agendasetting. Study 2: A randomized experiment demonstrated that exposure to ZML increased the perceived understanding of TTIP, which subsequently had a positive impact on the saliency of TTIP on the public agenda. Study 3: Longitudinal time-series data provide evidence that the saliency of TTIP on the public agenda-short term-and on the political agenda-long term-were positively affected by the ZML satire episodes. The study, altogether, demonstrates satire's ability to set the agenda of both the individual and aggregate level and emphasizes the persistent relevance of agenda-setting theory in today's high-choice media environment.

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Section: Intermedia Agenda-settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agenda-Setting With Satire: How Political Satire Increased TTIP’s Saliency on the Public, Media, and Political Agenda

Boukes¹

2018

Political Communication

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“…3 Contemporary satire uses political culture jamming to add a subversive interpretation to the continuous stream of political images, exploiting leverage points-factual errors, logical contradictions, and incongruities-in both the dominant political discourse and the media that disseminate it (Warner 2007). Satire, then, also becomes a tool to enforce accountability by pointing out falsehoods, inconsistencies, and inconsequential news that has been blown out of proportion (Painter and Hodges 2010). It challenges the legitimacy of serious news and forces media professionals and the audience to think more responsibly about what journalism should look like (Feldman 2007).…”

Section: Satiric Infotainment As Hybrid Alternative Mediamentioning

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Satiric Magazines as Hybrid Alternative Media in Latin America

Alonso¹

2019

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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This article explores the cases of two satirical publications—The Clinic (Chile, 1998–) and Barcelona (Argentina, 2003–). Through critical humor, visual subversions, and parody, these independent magazines challenged mainstream journalism and official political discourse, offering alternative interpretations about the ruling class and society after traumatic periods—Pinochet’s military dictatorship in Chile and the 2001 economic crisis in Argentina. Through interviews with the editors and content analysis, this article examines how these satirical publications responded to their respective national contexts by questioning the functioning of power on several levels of society, and how they evolved after they became popular, negotiating their space within the national mediascape. This study also suggests the notion of hybrid alternative media to describe these publications, which became part of a liberating process of collective healing. Initially perceived in opposition to mainstream media in contexts when the press’s credibility had decreased, they filled gaps in their society’s political communication.

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“…Discussions of Stewart as insider or outsider connect to ongoing anxieties concerning journalists' normative commitments to detachment as distance from political actors-even for news commentators expected to provide political opinions. Traditionally, journalistic claims to epistemic authority stem from being an outsider to what is being covered, yet journalists face accusations of becoming political insiders through their close ties with their sources (Carlson, 2009) or their outsized celebrity statuses (Meltzer, 2010). Moreover, new media forms diminish the dependence of political insiders by allowing elected officials to circumvent news media and reach the public independently (Grant, Moon, & Grant, 2010).…”

Section: Boundaries Of Political Position: Outsider/insidermentioning

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The Impudence of Being Earnest: Jon Stewart and the Boundaries of Discursive Responsibility

Carlson

Peifer

2013

J Commun

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In late 2010, Jon Stewart attracted considerable news media attention by organizing the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear and, later, pressuring lawmakers to pass legislation providing health care to 9/11 responders. The events renewed an interpretive struggle surrounding Stewart in which journalists understood his activity as signaling a shift in his cultural role. Using the concept of boundary maintenance to qualitatively analyze journalists' interpretations, this study connects journalistic discourse surrounding Stewart to questions of epistemic authority, the role of earnestness in public discourse, and the responsibility of discursive agents. These evaluations of Stewart illuminate the contestation of appropriate norms and practices within the mediated public sphere during an era of complex cultural, economic, and technological change.

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Mocking the News: HowThe Daily Show with Jon StewartHolds Traditional Broadcast News Accountable

Cited by 33 publications

References 11 publications

Agenda-Setting With Satire: How Political Satire Increased TTIP’s Saliency on the Public, Media, and Political Agenda

Agenda-Setting With Satire: How Political Satire Increased TTIP’s Saliency on the Public, Media, and Political Agenda

Satiric Magazines as Hybrid Alternative Media in Latin America

The Impudence of Being Earnest: Jon Stewart and the Boundaries of Discursive Responsibility

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