"The Daily Show" As Substantive As Broadcast News
Robert Paul Reyes
October 05, 2006
The broadcast networks portray themselves as the last bastion of serious news, but anybody who watches Katie Couric on a regular basis knows that she exudes as much gravitas as a perky monkey.
With news junkies increasingly turning to bloggers and cable news outlets for their daily info fix, the broadcast networks deride the Internet, Fox News, MSNBC and CNN as nothing more than The Daily Show without the wit of Jon Stewart.
Newsflash: A new study conducted by researchers at Indiana University concludes that The Daily Show has just as much substance as the broadcast news.
Edward Murrow may be turning over in his grave, but the snarky The Daily Show provides as much solid news as the three major news anchors.
It’s certainly quite an indictment that a “fake news” comedy program is as good a source for news as the network offerings. But recent history has taught us that recently retired anchor Dan Rather could learn a thing or two about research from Matt Drudge.
When I want to know what’s going on in the world I rarely turn on the TV, instead I check out Google News. News portals like Yahoo News and Google News continuously update their articles with thousands of sources from all over the world. The Internet provides news from every conceivable perspective, and that’s what most people are looking for.
And when I want spin with my news, I check out the opinion pieces at Web sites like AmericanChronicle.com and The Drudge Report.
The network nightly news programs are an anachronism, by the time they come on, most people have already checked out the latest news dozens of times online. Katie Couric is an anchor, nothing but dead weight, tied down to a dying format.
With news junkies increasingly turning to bloggers and cable news outlets for their daily info fix, the broadcast networks deride the Internet, Fox News, MSNBC and CNN as nothing more than The Daily Show without the wit of Jon Stewart.
Newsflash: A new study conducted by researchers at Indiana University concludes that The Daily Show has just as much substance as the broadcast news.
Edward Murrow may be turning over in his grave, but the snarky The Daily Show provides as much solid news as the three major news anchors.
It’s certainly quite an indictment that a “fake news” comedy program is as good a source for news as the network offerings. But recent history has taught us that recently retired anchor Dan Rather could learn a thing or two about research from Matt Drudge.
When I want to know what’s going on in the world I rarely turn on the TV, instead I check out Google News. News portals like Yahoo News and Google News continuously update their articles with thousands of sources from all over the world. The Internet provides news from every conceivable perspective, and that’s what most people are looking for.
And when I want spin with my news, I check out the opinion pieces at Web sites like AmericanChronicle.com and The Drudge Report.
The network nightly news programs are an anachronism, by the time they come on, most people have already checked out the latest news dozens of times online. Katie Couric is an anchor, nothing but dead weight, tied down to a dying format.
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