On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I saw an interview with Trevor Noah where he said the big difference >> between his TDS and Stewart's was that Stewart's audience got its news from >> cable channels and his audience gets theirs from Buzzfeed and social media. >> >> If that's true, I'm not even going to bother giving the new Daily Show a > try. On Twitter, I openly mock the "news directors" on BuzzFeed, asking > them if their journalism degree qualifies them to repost other people's cat > videos and Kardashian side-boob pics. > Well, Noah's point was that Stewart's TDS was satirizing 24 hour cable news, but that today most young people get their news from the internet, where there is no "24 hour news cycle" but constantly updated news bites that are designed to generate clicks. Maybe we will see him satirizing side boob and cat stories, but I think he has more in mind the even more dumbed-down, trivialized and simplified news provided by popular news aggregators as opposed to cable news. I think Colbert's point was basically that he had said all he had to say comically with the TCR character and did not want to be locked in a life time dance with the haters. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
