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Yelling Bird at TheOnion.com
raoullefere:
--- Quote from: AsinineAxioms on 28 Oct 2010, 13:54 ---
--- Quote from: akronnick on 28 Oct 2010, 02:51 ---The Onion is nothing but spoofs.
Of course it's hard to tell, given the state of TV news in the US these days.
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I know people who take stuff like the Daily Show and the Colbert Report seriously. It's not so much the state of American TV news as it is the state of mind of the people who watch it.
I thoroughly enjoy both shows, but I would think it's fairly obvious that they're satirical and not actually news...
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Where on American TV, pray tell, are you finding 'actual news'? I'd beware of taking that seriously, too.
Carl-E:
Well, there's always C-SPAN...
And various other independent shows, like Democracy Now!, not that they don't have a bias. At least they're not commercially supported, so they're not pandering to their advertisers!
And if you can stand to watch any of them, you're doing a lot better than I am!
AsinineAxioms:
Eh, I actually do watch C-SPAN. We have the cheapest cable package available in our area, so it's basically C-SPAN, Fox News (ugh), Nick1, Nick2, NickToons, and Boomerang. Oh, and the Science Channel.
JD:
--- Quote from: AsinineAxioms on 28 Oct 2010, 13:54 ---
--- Quote from: akronnick on 28 Oct 2010, 02:51 ---The Onion is nothing but spoofs.
Of course it's hard to tell, given the state of TV news in the US these days.
--- End quote ---
I know people who take stuff like the Daily Show and the Colbert Report seriously. It's not so much the state of American TV news as it is the state of mind of the people who watch it.
I thoroughly enjoy both shows, but I would think it's fairly obvious that they're satirical and not actually news...
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They talk about real news in a silly way. It's called satire.
Promethean Sky:
The Onion is the embodiment of Poe's Law. Simple as that.
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