News Satire: Giving the News a Memory

Basu, Laura

doi:10.31269/triplec.v16i1.647

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“…Along with its spinoff program, The Colbert Report, which ran from 2005 to 2014 and was considered a trusted news source among young males (Gottfried & Anderson, 2014), The Daily Show has been even considered to represent a new kind of journalism, garnering prestigious journalism awards, such as Peabody Awards (Baym, 2005;Borden & Tew, 2007). In the form of mock news, The Daily Show provides playful, but aggressive criticism and commentary on politics, media and society, while trying to make sense of the news (Basu, 2018;Jones & Baym, 2010).…”

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“…In the Trump era, political satirists appear to be doing a better job at covering the Trump administration than traditional journalists who cherish journalistic norms and principles to take everything seriously and try to show all sides of the story (Maza, 2017). Some media scholars even call late-night talk shows the fourth estate (Kilby, 2018) or the fifth estate (Basu, 2018) to highlight these programs' potential democratic impact. Accordingly, it is timely and important to examine the democratic effects of late-night talk shows, the most popular program of political satire, in the contemporary media and political environment.…”

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“…This is because political satire informs the public of important social and political issues in an entertaining manner, while interrogating and challenging power, criticizing current news, and engaging audiences in the process (Baym, 2005;Jones & Baym, 2010). Using humor, the satirists often perform as public affairs journalists, by trying to better engage audiences with the news, make sense of the news, and ultimately increase audience participation in the political process (Basu, 2018;Faina, 2013). Content analyses of the late-night talk shows confirm many of these arguments.…”

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“…The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in rare combination with Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and The Colbert Report. With the exit of three of the satirists -Jon Stewart, David Letterman, and Jay Lenoand the remaining one -Stephen Colberttaking on a different program, it is important to examine if and how the currently aired late-night talk shows produce democratic good to live up to the great promise that many qualitative studies of political satire argue (Basu, 2018;Baym, 2005;Faina, 2013;J. P. Jones & Baym, 2010;Kilby, 2018).…”

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Participatory effects of political satire revisited in the age of digital media : the role of hard news, political expression and social media

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This study examines the participatory effects of political satire, specifically late-night talk shows, in the age of digital media. Based on the O-S-R-O-R (background Orientation-Stimulus-Reasoning-outcome Orientation-Response) model of communication effects, this study theorizes and tests structural relationships in which audience factors (e.g., partisanship, hard news use) guide political satire viewing, and information processing activities (e.g., political talk, social media expression) and cognitive outcomes (e.g., political knowledge, political efficacy) channel the impact of the audience factor-driven political satire viewing on participation. More importantly, this study examines, for the first time, the role of social media in both political satire viewing and political expression, and its influence on participation. Data from a nationally representative survey (N=573) suggest that hard news use is an essential prerequisite for the participatory effects of political satire viewing. In addition, partisanship is a key predictor of political satire viewing, and media channel matters, such that those who watch late-night talk shows on television are less likely to participate in politics, while those who watch late-night talk shows in the social media environment are more likely to participate in politics through political expression on social media. These findings highlight the importance of understanding who receives what messages from where and how in the contemporary media environment to better explain the effects of media.

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