the public of changes to government policy and campaign details without nearly putting people to sleep? Shows like The Daily Show do just this‚ by adding a hint of humor to their long list of fact-based political arguments and stories‚ yet they are never cited as a credible source. Why do people assume that comedy news television is relevantly referred to as “trash” or “fake” news? To fully know and understand what makes these venues not only mandatory to society‚ but also beneficial to each individual
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Professor and philosopher‚ Jason Zinser‚ in “The Good‚ the Bad and The Daily Show” addresses the topic of “fake” news‚ and tries to decide if shows such as The Daily Show are good resources for people to use. Are these shows a suitable replacement for "real" news? In the article he states that “fake” news shows have their “virtues and vices”. At the end of the article Zinser believes that as a whole the shows help more than impede the public’s knowledge of the news. Zinser uses ethical appeal‚ logical appeal
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Analysis of The Good‚ The Bad‚ and The Daily Show In Jason Zinser’s “The Good‚ the Bad‚ and The Daily Show” his purpose was to formulate a response to the uncertainty regarding the legitimacy and ethics of ‘fake’ news sources. Zinser begins by discussing if it is acceptable to obtain information from a humorous and often satirical news source (in this example‚ The Daily Show)‚ he points out that “the question isn’t whether Jon Stewart or the show’s producers and writers are morally corrupt people
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to her keen sense of sizing up our customers’ needs as well as training any newly hired employees in the department. While Mrs. Ramirez might appear shy at first glance you will quickly realize the opposite. Her aspiration to continuously seize new challenges and rapidly succeed within them would make her the perfect contributor for your work center. She has proven this recently by voicing candid observations in regards to current fashion trends and‚ when given the authority‚ has taken ownership
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The article‚ “The Good‚ the Bad‚ and The Daily Show‚” written by Jason Zinser‚ talks about the implications that “fake” news shows like The Daily Show have on society and the media. He begins by talking about the dissemination of news and the responsibility the news has to inform people. Then he explains what he believes the vices are of “fake” news: deception and dilution. He argues that the show inadvertently decepts its viewers when they believe that their information is objective. He also argues
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The Good and Bad of Roosevelt’s New Deal The era of the Great Depression was by far the worst shape the United States had ever been in‚ both economically and physically. Franklin Roosevelt was elected in 1932 and began to bring relief with his New Deal. In his first 100 days as President‚ sixteen pieces of legislation were passed by Congress‚ the most to be passed in a short amount of time. Roosevelt was re-elected twice‚ and quickly gained the trust of the American people. Many of the New Deal
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The New Deal is a good deal. Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed the New Deal to try to help the America people recover from the Great Depression. The goals of the New Deal were to get America out of the Great Depression by the 3 R’s. The 3 R’s are Relief‚ Recovery‚ and Reform. Relief for the hungry and jobless‚ Recovery for the agriculture and industry‚ and Reform to change the way the economy worked. The New Deal was an exceptional deal. The New Deal started to create more jobs for people who
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News editors decide what to broadcast on television and what to print in newspapers. What factors do you think influence these decisions? Do we become used to bad news? Would it be better if more good news was reported? By far‚ news is very important to our world recently. Nowadays our world situation is full of violence and tragic happened every second. Indeed‚ Television and Newspapers are the medium for people to have a chance to acknowledge what currently happen all around the world. Both
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Bad news sells better than good news David Murray The good news about bad news is that there is not nearly as much of it as you might think. The bad news about good news is that good news doesn’t tend to sell. Dr. Bradley Wright explains this paradox in Upside: Surprising Good News about the State of our World The media sells negative worldviews. It’s not that reporters‚ writers‚ and editors are pessimistic people; rather‚ they have a strong incentive to tell us about the fearful‚ scary‚ and
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MetroWest Daily News is an American day by day daily paper distributed in Framingham‚ Massachusetts‚ serving the MetroWest district of rural Boston. It is the lead daily paper of Community Newspaper Company‚ a division of GateHouse Media. The daily paper covers a few urban communities and towns in Norfolk and Worcester regions‚ however until 1998 it was named for Middlesex County or for the town of Framingham (through the vast majority of the mid-twentieth century‚ as the Framingham News). Initially
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