page 3 isn't real

12/21/2006 6:05:04 PM

btw:

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"# Nary Is Heard a Favorable Word: In its pre-election coverage, "Daily Show" correspondents evaluated candidates and policies negatively 97 percent of the time. When compared to traditional broadcast network news coverage over the years, this is more negative than the coverage of the GOP during the Mark Foley scandal (88% negative) and Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf War (88% negative). # GOP vs. Dems, Flotsam Versus Jetsam? If not necessarily fair, the "Daily Show" was balanced in its depiction of the two political parties. 98% of the evaluations of Republicans prior to the election were negative, while 96% of the ‘reporting’ on Democrats was negative. # Top Targets: The politician who was most frequently mocked during the run-up to the election wasn’t a GOP lawmaker, but former Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry. The top four targets of "Daily Show" abuse were Kerry, President George W. Bush, GOP Congressman Don Sherwood (accused of strangling his mistress) and Senator Mike DeWine. The number one political issue satirized was the use of electronic voting machines."

http://community.livejournal.com/tds_tcr_academe/20498.html
sorry for the weak source link .. they have a link to the report's PDF in the post.

and for those that will say the Center for Media and Public Affairs is paritsan and WANTS to show that Stewart isn't biased, i'll let you decide for yourselves from their website, but they say this about themselves :

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"The Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) is a nonpartisan research and educational organization which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media."

.. oh yeah, and they're a 501(c)(3) non-profit.

12/28/2006 1:41:23 PM

the daily show: liberal satire show
colbert report: conservative satire show

wtf is fox trying to do here???

1/5/2007 3:28:10 AM

Fair and balanced

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"WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice let slip her news media preferences Thursday, saying, "I love every single one" of Fox News network's correspondents and also favors CBS anchor Harry Smith. In comments overheard on an open microphone between morning television interviews, including one with Fox, the top U.S. diplomat said: "My Fox guys, I love every single one of them." But Rice told an aide that when she was next in Iraq she would like to do a "one-on-one" interview with CBS "The Early Show" anchor Harry Smith. "He's a decent guy. I know they are, like, 55 in the ratings, but I like him," Rice said in comments monitored by Reuters on a television feed."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/11/rice.reut/index.html?eref=rss_politics

1/12/2007 11:41:42 AM

^in premie palace everyone thinks you are state409c

1/12/2007 11:49:08 AM

Clip leaked!

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/05/obama-oprah/

Suprise, it's not funny. I'm not watching, but mostly because they need to buy a steady-cam. Not suprising it's just them sitting around going "LIBERALS ARE ALL BLAH BLAH BLAH".

Is this really supposed to be like the daily show?

[Edited on February 5, 2007 at 1:08 PM. Reason : .]

2/5/2007 1:06:47 PM

^ wow thats not even funny. Because i mean, who still says douche, and giggles like a 3 yr old?


laaame.

2/5/2007 1:11:53 PM

Maybe this is a covert operation by Daily Show staffers to demonstrate that they aren't as biased as people claim.

Now this, this is bias. They're going to have an episode with Ann Coulter and Rush on it, apparently. I have a feeling this show might get some decent ratings, but mostly because so many Daily Show fans and liberals will be entertained by how horrible it is.

2/5/2007 1:14:30 PM

Wow, so what about that was supposed to be funny? It's just like watching show _____ on Faux News.

2/5/2007 1:18:28 PM

I'll give it to you that the Daily Show is fairly liberal, but they usually do a pretty good job at attacking liberals when they screw up too. It's just that until recently democrats haven't had the opportunity to screw up even if they had wanted to.

2/5/2007 1:19:25 PM

This doesnt come off as comedy at all, it just comes off as very asshole-ish.

2/5/2007 1:22:22 PM

As if all of Faux News doesn't? The arrogance is deplorable.

2/5/2007 1:43:37 PM

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"That cat is a PR disaster whenever he opens his mouth."

lol

2/5/2007 1:46:33 PM

The Daily Show has a liberal host and is targeted towards a liberal audience, thus it will poke fun at conservatives because thats what its audience will laugh at, there is nothing wrong with this. Quite frankly, conservative humor . . . isn't. I consider myself somewhere between Libertarianism and Conservatism, but I find very little of the right's humor all that funny. Quite frankly, I think they try to hard though people like Howard Dean (the scream, of course) and Ted Kennedy ("Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my gun") provide easy fodder.

Fortunately, I don't base my political opinions upon comedy. "A witty saying proves nothing" and whatnot. (Merci Messr. Voltaire).

All that being said, anyone who tries to argue than any. any of the major networks even approach fair and balanced is completely off their rocker and each news program would do a better job of serving their audience if they would publicly take an editorial stance on issues and devote their time to proving their point and countering (but not obscuring) the opposition's view.

2/5/2007 2:22:00 PM

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"As if all of Faux News doesn't? The arrogance is deplorable."

I can't say I watch cable news, so I have no idea what they're like outside of their pundits, to tell the truth.

2/5/2007 2:24:47 PM

What's funny is that only the liberals want to have shows that mock others, only they can monopolize every hour of NPR while raising an absolute shit fit when armed forces radio wanted to air an hour of the Rush Limbaugh show, etc.

Such openness and tolerance and understanding...gotta love it!

2/5/2007 2:28:22 PM

I'm sorry, did they cancell all the pundit shows on AM radio that can't go a minute without referring to liberals as scum? Does NPR ever come out and call conservatives the same sort of things you hear on The Savage Nation and in Ann Coulter columns?

2/5/2007 2:35:13 PM

No, but perhaps the benefit of conservative radio is that you know what you're listening to. As a general rule NPR's stories are well thought out and informative, but from time to time I want to reach through the radio and punch their commentators in their elitist little throats. Not to mention some of their announcers have the most annoying voices . . . but that is just a pet peeve of mine I suppose.

I'm no fan of Rush, and I cringe every time I hear someone repeating his lines or assuming that everyone to the left of them is an idiot, but you watch your typical anti-war protest and you'll see the same brand of extremism and refusal to acknowledge that those on the opposition are anything short of evil.

2/5/2007 2:42:26 PM

I hope that wasn't scripted, because if it was, I could write better material.

2/5/2007 4:07:58 PM

that was the comedy show??

holy fuck, seemed just like any other program on fox news, no?

[Edited on February 5, 2007 at 6:12 PM. Reason : m]

2/5/2007 6:12:10 PM

this piece of shit is on right now

i cant believe how bad that was

i want my 5 min back

[Edited on February 6, 2007 at 2:41 AM. Reason : wow]

2/6/2007 2:25:50 AM

mtv used to have a show waaaay back called "half hour comedy hour"

2/14/2007 4:39:39 PM

wtf was that show on Comedy Central about politics with the crazy drunk Irish dood and the fat black guy.

they should have just ran re-runs of that.

also who would watch that, its not funny its just pointing out liberal stereotypes.

2/14/2007 6:09:01 PM

That Red-Eye clip was horriblly not funny.

But this a clip from the other actually scripted show that fox is producing... called the 1/2 Hour News Hour:

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/13/video-the-half-hour-news-hour/

2/14/2007 9:34:41 PM

wow, thats pretty bad.

And very pathetic that they are just copying the daily show.

2/14/2007 9:38:51 PM

that clip was like an SNL spoof on The Daily Show, it had the over fake laughter and all.

the problem is that TDS makes fun of politicians and the media as a whole with a liberal slant and this show seems like its just finding ways to make fun of democrats. I have a distaste for the system as a whole and thats why the TDS appeals to me and most 20 somethings. This show seems like its just making dumb one liners. Also yesterday they had the author of a book about the fallacy of global warming and even though Stewart disagreed with the guy it was a good convo about the book and made me interested to read more into it. This Fox show just seems silly.

2/14/2007 9:50:09 PM

^^^god, that was just as terrible

2/14/2007 10:13:46 PM

The first couple of jokes were pretty funny, but the magazine clip sucked, and Jennifer is the worst actor I have ever seen.

It looked like a suckier version of weekend update.

2/14/2007 10:29:05 PM

the problem with me

is that i'm trying to watch the show, but that i know that it was made to copy the daily show (which has gotten too smug for me)...and that it feels like it's copying a copy

i don't like knowing that it came from fox news cause that creates a bias within me..i hate that, but it's a reality

perhaps if normal fox (you know the parent company of fox news that does everything that fox news is allegedly against) had created it, i might not be as biased

ah fuck it

2/14/2007 10:44:14 PM

machine gun

2/14/2007 10:52:03 PM

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/14/video-president-rush-limbaugh-%20vice-president-ann-coulter/


a new video from this absolute piece of shit of a show

2/15/2007 10:27:31 PM

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"wtf was that show on Comedy Central about politics with the crazy drunk Irish dood and the fat black guy."

Tough Crowd w/Colin Quinn? Well, that did beat Adam Carolla's show. I may have found something that was worse than his show after watching that link.

2/15/2007 11:59:36 PM

I didn't think it could be as bad as what the librul media is saying, but then I saw the clips. Holy shit what were they thinking

2/16/2007 12:12:20 AM

Just watched the Coulter/Limbaugh piece.

It's more MadTV than Daily Show, which, as marko wisely pointed out, has gotten a little too smug.

2/16/2007 12:13:09 AM

hahaha...you guys...

2/16/2007 7:24:45 AM

Jane, you ignorant slut.

2/16/2007 10:51:07 PM

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"I consider myself somewhere between Libertarianism and Conservatism, but I find very little of the right's humor all that funny."

Go pick up something by P.J. O'Rourke and then come back and apologize for your ignorance.

2/17/2007 11:40:45 AM

From what I've seen on this show so far, it sucks--hard. Sorry.

3/5/2007 12:13:12 AM

It certainly is fake comedy

3/5/2007 12:52:39 AM

I'M WITH IT, I'M HIP. DUCKA DUCKA DUCKA DUCKA

3/5/2007 12:59:27 AM

This show is terrible. However, I will say that the Daily Show has become considerably less entertaining. There's a thin line between funny and preachy. The Daily Show crossed the fuck out of that line.

3/5/2007 3:59:40 AM

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"Not to mention some of their announcers have the most annoying voices . . . but that is just a pet peeve of mine I suppose."

She actually has a disease, I'm pretty sure. Or she had a stroke. But I know that something is wrong with her and that's why she talks like that.

3/5/2007 6:48:05 AM

^ you're referring to Diane Rehm. She has a desiese called Spasmodic Dysphonia, which basically paralyzes your vocal chords. She has to get botox in her throat every couple months to keep talking.
She still has a show on NPR because she's kind of a god-mother of NPR - she's been on the air for 35 years or so, and she just started having trouble with her voice around 1998.
It turns out, Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, came down with it a couple years ago and he's written about it several times on his blog
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/03/can_you_hear_me.html
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/10/good_news_day.html
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/01/voice_update_1.html


however, i think JCASHFAN is not talking about Diane Rehm. She has her own show - she is not a commentator. I think he's talking about commentators you hear on Morning Edition or All Things Considered, who can be, or sound, elitest and can get pretty annoying.
For example, Andrei Codrescu has a very thick Romanian accent and talks about art and poetry and music a lot. The combination of his exotic accent and his subject material (poetry, dance, etc) can make him come off sounding elitest.

Daniel Schorr can also sound stuck-up and stuffy, but I give him a lot of leeway since I found out he's 90 years old, and a lot of his sound just comes from age. i think his age - that he was already a grown man during WWII, for example, gives him a good perspective on modern events in a historical context.

so while NPR does have a pretty good mix of commentators with different views, many of the do sound like stuffy intellectuals who should be teaching at Harvard. And as Fox News and CNN have proven over the years (and AM radio), the public would much rather listen to shouting bobble heads than smart, albiet boring or stuffy, people with informed opinions.

[Edited on March 5, 2007 at 8:21 AM. Reason : .]

3/5/2007 8:21:07 AM

It's sad that intelligence now equals elitism. I guess that is how the wingnuts keep their flock stupid thus retaining their devotion.

3/5/2007 8:28:27 AM

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"Yet, in our 2004 polling with Media Vote, using Nielsen diaries, we found that Fox News viewers supported George Bush over John Kerry by 88 percent to 7 percent. No demographic segment, other than Republicans, was as united in supporting Bush. Conservatives, white evangelical Christians, gun owners, and supporters of the Iraq war all gave Bush fewer votes than did regular Fox News viewers."

http://thehill.com/mark-mellman/hounding-fox-news-coverage-2007-03-20.html

3/21/2007 9:08:59 PM

That's incredible.

3/21/2007 9:42:18 PM

I wish news organizations like Fox News, CNN, New York Times, New York Post, etc. would just come out and say "we are Republican" or "we are Democrat". The whole front these people put up of being an unbiased media is so 1984ish.

[Edited on March 22, 2007 at 10:13 AM. Reason : .]

3/22/2007 10:12:20 AM

no link, but I think the show got picked up for another 13 episodes. Sorry guys.

I enjoy the ACLU ads.

3/22/2007 10:32:58 AM

^ The ACLU ads make me want to join the ACLU.

3/22/2007 4:29:18 PM