Every guest on the daily show is there to promote something, it’s a glorified extended ad spot. A skeptic raining on their parade does not help sell their books or other product, so that’s never going to happen. The purpose is not to reveal truth, but sell shit.
It’s a step left from Jerry Springer, and always has been. It’s The Onion of talk shows.
If you need every implication of falsehood spelled out for you, then satire is not your thing, and that’s okay, but it doesn’t change the fact that the show started out on, and still airs on, Comedy Central. Its timeslot set it up to watched before/after Saturday Night Live and so many others, and it started at a time when people were getting wise to the big conglomerates buying up all the news stations so they could control the narrative; Roughly the same time-period that gave us fark.com, Cracked.com, and TheOnion.com website literally went online the same year.
If you think The Daily Show expects to be taken seriously, and/or even pretends to be an entirely trustworth news source in the slightest, you’ve mise SO, SO MANY memos.
And yet many people do take their guests seriously. Maybe they shouldn’t, but they do. A lot of people get all of their news from The Daily Show. I hate that, but that’s just how it is. So when they platform a fraud like Elizondo, that’s a problem.
Sure kid, people worth engaging, accomodating, or mitigating are using The Daily Show as their exclusive source of news. Next you’ll tell me Oprah is a good person.
Who you personally care to engage with is not at issue here. There are far more people than that and they cumulatively guide society. Ignore that at your peril.
There are not enough such people getting their news from The Daily Show to matter, no way, no how. That is an absurdly stupid proposition. Are you convinced that’s most of the MAGA crowd or something?
Fun thing about fact-checking YOUR JOKESat the guests’ expense, is that they can say whatever bullshit they want, and the audience knows the guest isn’t in on, doesn’t get the joke. Are you trying to present yourself as clueless enough to garner a guest spot?
Every guest on the daily show is there to promote something, it’s a glorified extended ad spot. A skeptic raining on their parade does not help sell their books or other product, so that’s never going to happen. The purpose is not to reveal truth, but sell shit.
It’s a step left from Jerry Springer, and always has been. It’s The Onion of talk shows.
If you need every implication of falsehood spelled out for you, then satire is not your thing, and that’s okay, but it doesn’t change the fact that the show started out on, and still airs on, Comedy Central. Its timeslot set it up to watched before/after Saturday Night Live and so many others, and it started at a time when people were getting wise to the big conglomerates buying up all the news stations so they could control the narrative; Roughly the same time-period that gave us fark.com, Cracked.com, and TheOnion.com website literally went online the same year.
If you think The Daily Show expects to be taken seriously, and/or even pretends to be an entirely trustworth news source in the slightest, you’ve mise SO, SO MANY memos.
exactly, that’s why your suggestion above:
is not going to happen. it’s not a serious show.
And yet many people do take their guests seriously. Maybe they shouldn’t, but they do. A lot of people get all of their news from The Daily Show. I hate that, but that’s just how it is. So when they platform a fraud like Elizondo, that’s a problem.
Sure kid, people worth engaging, accomodating, or mitigating are using The Daily Show as their exclusive source of news. Next you’ll tell me Oprah is a good person.
Who you personally care to engage with is not at issue here. There are far more people than that and they cumulatively guide society. Ignore that at your peril.
There are not enough such people getting their news from The Daily Show to matter, no way, no how. That is an absurdly stupid proposition. Are you convinced that’s most of the MAGA crowd or something?
You sure about that? Because the people behind the show, who get the metrics, seem to feel otherwise.
https://www.goldderby.com/feature/jennifer-flanz-the-daily-show-executive-producer-video-interview-1204963257/amp/
Fun thing about fact-checking YOUR JOKES at the guests’ expense, is that they can say whatever bullshit they want, and the audience knows the guest isn’t in on, doesn’t get the joke. Are you trying to present yourself as clueless enough to garner a guest spot?
I’m not sure why telling quoting about what the staff remembers has any bearing on what the viewers believe.
Wasn’t this about the viewers and whether or not they give the Daily Show credibility as a news source?