{"id":20322,"date":"2014-08-24T14:32:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T21:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20322"},"modified":"2014-08-24T14:32:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T21:32:05","slug":"fox-news-is-the-conservative-daily-show-it-just-wont-admit-its-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20322","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Is The Conservative Daily Show, It Just Won\u2019t Admit It’s A Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is an article<\/a> on Grantland by Brian Phillips that takes a look back at media satire on television. It focuses mainly on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, but mentions everything from Bob & Ray to Monty Python. It’s an interesting read, but this paragraph alone is worth the price of admission:<\/p>\n

“Is it strange that, of all the current-events products currently on television, it\u2019s often Fox News that feels most like a ‘Weekend Update’ bit? Critics are constantly asking why there\u2019s no conservative Daily Show, but there is; it just won\u2019t admit it\u2019s a joke. The structure of Fox News is so deeply and basically comic that it\u2019s impossible not to read it into the tradition of news satire. All those weeping paranoiacs! The fist-shaking curmudgeons! The gun-toting robo-blondes! Like ‘Weekend Update,’ Fox succeeded by taking the elements of a normal news broadcast and exaggerating them to ludicrous proportions. Only instead of Opera Man, it has Angry Immigration Crusader; instead of Mr. Subliminal, it has Jowly Operative Insinuating Things About Hillary Clinton\u2019s Health; instead of Gay Hitler, it has Outmatched Token Liberal; instead of ‘Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead,’ it has Benghazi.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Media<\/p>\n

Well said. And thanks to the wingnut brigade at NewsBusters for whining about this entertaining and accurate essay, without whom I probably would never have seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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