6th February 2008, 9:32 PM
Sure there's fake stuff and a lot of jokes, but a lot of the humor on those shows comes from just flat out SHOWING clips of politicians and, um, other news shows.
The fact is a lot of news shows are getting pretty ridiculous. I mean, are they seriously reduced to a news anchor holding a targetting ball so a computer animated graph can be digitally added to an image in "real time" matching where the guy's hand is (for NO GOOD REASON AT ALL)?
I don't watch normal news shows because the vast majority of the time it's reduced to "entertainment" with very little quality journalism. While that's also true in my own news source (the internet at large), there's less of it.
The fact is a lot of news shows are getting pretty ridiculous. I mean, are they seriously reduced to a news anchor holding a targetting ball so a computer animated graph can be digitally added to an image in "real time" matching where the guy's hand is (for NO GOOD REASON AT ALL)?
I don't watch normal news shows because the vast majority of the time it's reduced to "entertainment" with very little quality journalism. While that's also true in my own news source (the internet at large), there's less of it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)