Essay On Saturday Night Live

Throughout recent human history, different outlets of media have become apparent in everyday life, such as TV, the radio, our cellphones, and the internet. These new outlets allow its billions of users across the world have access to local, national, and worldwide news. Social media networks allow people all over the world to connect and communicate with each other instantly. As the technology is improving, many sources of media such as the news and television shows attempt to inform their audiences on local, national, and worldwide events. However, in recent times, the accuracy or disclosure in which the media is portraying issues or people has become mistaken and unreliable. Along with the improvement in technology, the competition between
One of the most famous Saturday Night Live skits features Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, giving the audience a hilarious, yet nonetheless misleading portrayal of the political figure herself. In the skit, the writers make Palin look very ditzy in comparison to Clinton. Palin appears to not know what things are and responds to real issues in a very eccentric manner, making it hard for any audience member to take her seriously when all the viewer wants to do is laugh at her. In the cold open skit, Fey's infamous line "I can see Russia from my house!" (Palin / Hillary Cold Open) is believed to be said by Palin by 86.9% of people according to a Zogby poll. However, in reality Palin never has publically said this statement, causing many uninformed viewers to then be misinformed by Saturday Night Live's skit which failed to disclose the fact that everything said was written by SNL writers. This gap the audience has of being able to distinct a fictional skit from reality causes there to be real life effects in the judgements of the portrayed politician’s character. This false judgement caused by the viewers being misinformed, leads to much greater impacts in reality when it comes time to