Saturday, September 11, 2010

jon stewart explains journalism to MSNBC

this doesn't really cover the race/gender section of the class, but it does hit on the "media" part of the class, and it's a fun video.

this is from thursday's episode of the daily show. it's a wonderful example of the silliness of the 24 hour news channels and how they pick and choose what they think is "news". i took democracy and democratization as one of my poly sci classes last semester, and we could write about any topic relating to democracy. i chose to write about the evolution of tv news and how it effects democracy, and it really opened my eyes to how crazy and biased all the cable news networks are.

(the part about the 24 hr news channels starts around 4:00 minutes in, but the whole thing is pretty much magical. )


No comments:

Post a Comment