On Thursday October 28 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart did something it had never done in its entire run: interview a sitting United States President. Barack Obama realized that the Democratic Party was in trouble to lose all of Congress and putting his chips down on the popular satirical news program hoping that it would get the target demographic voters out to the polls tomorrow. My question was had he underestimated what Jon could do to him even though he was President? After watching the interview I found that the article: “President Obama skewered by Jon Stewart in ‘Daily Show’ interview” gave the best summary of what happened during this interview. This article showed us that “Fake News” as they call it is actually more real than the news we get from MSNBC or Fox. They spoke about how since he came into office all of the things that we promised were not delivered in the way we were promised and how the Democrats were running on the “Please baby one more chance” ticket and that President Obama’s slogan should have been “Yes we can…but.” I was pleasantly refreshed with the questions that were asked by Stewart and how despite President Obama trying to spin things as he is so good at doing Jon stayed the course and pushed the buttons that everyday Americans wanted pushed and he pushed about as hard as he could without making Obama angry. This was a good example of fake news becoming real news because they had an opportunity not many people had they could ask questions in a way that gave a slight sarcastic humor that would have offended a “real” newscaster but we got answers and saw Obama actually have to search for answers to questions he wouldn’t be asked in a normal setting. We saw something we don’t normally see someone taking what Barack Obama said and showing that it wasn’t anything of substance.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Fake News Proves Once Again It’s Real
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Wow! I did not know he went on the daily show. Jon Stuart would definitely try to get at the questions that most of America wants to hear. Whats funny is, both of them (Jon Stuart and Obama) are really good at public speaking and at choosing the correct words at the correct time in a fast pace. Therefore, this was definetely real news to me. The "fake news" as many people see the Daily Show being, gives us more information as well as more entertainment, the the "real news" can deliver. You will never hear news channels like CNN and MSNBC ask Obama questions like Jon Stuart would and although Jon can be quite biased, he does deliver an effective approach at covering "worthy" news.
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