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Summary: Real News Vs. Satire
Real News Versus Satire News
Conceive of a time of an active shooter situation was occurring somewhere around the USA an instead of CNN’s Anderson Cooper report the news, a comedian such as Jon Stewart is the newscaster. Most likely viewers would shake their heads and change the TV channel to another news channel. An article by student Christopher Moore called “Information Plus Satire: Why The Daily Show and The Colbert are Good Sources of News for Young People” in the anthology Writing Arguments a Rhetoric with Readings by John d. Ramage, Jon c. Bean, and June Johnson; Moore writes about why satire news like The Colbert Report and The Daily Show good sources of news for young people This is not true, major news channels like CNN, FOX News …show more content…
(Moore, 299) This whole statement is false. The argument that news media uses fallacies is completely wrong. This one political candidate is only one guy, and does not express the views of other political candidates and politicians and also, the example Moore uses, will most likely never happen on a network news channel.
The editorial by Christopher Moore, there are other examples why Moore is wrong with his claim. One example is, major news networks often have creditable correspondents and guests to explain the news. Another example, is a major one; breaking news is an important part of the news. Satire news like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report is recorded and, like Moore states do not show breaking news. Breaking news like active shooter situations, major bad weather or any other news breaking news is often important to know at the moment instead hours later on a prerecord program. The national news is live and throughout the day has multiple newscasters, that give different thoughts and ideas on the news unlike The Daily Show and The Colbert Report that only have the one host of both TV shows. Events like, major speeches, presidential candidate primaries, and caucus press conferences and many more live programs are all not covered on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report that Moore might count as major news segments. To conclude, satire news like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are just not a good source for young people, like college students or high school students. A good news satire like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report is only good to view after the viewer watched national news programs and local news instead of only watching satire news only, viewers just not get the whole picture
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