Word: humority
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...more than observing the evolution of the old “liberal new bias” battle cry into the newly-minted hypothesis that a liberal bias exists in fake news. If there was doubt that the show was created to overturn this perceived liberal bias in news-based humor, the first promotional ad should have erased...
...promo’s last claim of being an “equal opportunity offender.” So much for “Fair and Balanced.” However, the greatest injury caused by the show isn’t inflicted on liberals but rather on humor itself...
...Humor has long been a sacred political tool. News can be spun or deliberately falsified. Books can be burned. Opposition parties can be marginalized. But the power of laughter can never be completely eradicated. Laughter, like murder, will out the tyrants, the hypocrites, the liars, and any others who abuse publicly-entrusted power. From Aristophanes’ mockery of the Athenian city-state to Bulgakov’s comic portrayal of Communist Russia, satire has, throughout history, allowed political dialogue to escape the bog of slippery words and violent duress. This happens because despite half-truths and full-spins, something...
Assigning a specific political agenda to humor, as exemplified by “The ½ Hour News Hour,” is one of the more dangerous turns that media can take. Most people accept that American news sources are biased, whether it’s a discussion about the relative merits of Fox News and National Public Radio, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, or Bill O’Reilly and Keith Olbermann. But our humor should be nonpartisan. Jon Stewart belittles Bush as well as Hilary Clinton and Obama. Stephen Colbert mocks Republican representatives...
...Hour News Hour” changes this dynamic. When humor, the mechanism for dealing with bias news, becomes biased in itself, then the biggest loser is the truth...