The Daily Show
Politicians are afraid that they are going to be ridiculed by satire made up of footage from Parliament.
It's a well founded fear - Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with John Stewart" (shown in New Zealand on C4) does just that - lampooning every Politician who says anything stupid. It describes itself as "a nightly half-hour series unburdened by objectivity, journalistic integrity or even accuracy".
In New Zealand, Jeremy Wells does a great job with Eating Media Lunch.
But the thing that Politicians should remember is this:
If you don't want to be satirised - then don't say or do anything stupid.
It's a well founded fear - Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with John Stewart" (shown in New Zealand on C4) does just that - lampooning every Politician who says anything stupid. It describes itself as "a nightly half-hour series unburdened by objectivity, journalistic integrity or even accuracy".
In New Zealand, Jeremy Wells does a great job with Eating Media Lunch.
But the thing that Politicians should remember is this:
If you don't want to be satirised - then don't say or do anything stupid.
posted by Michael at
8:39 PM
2 Comments:
Sometimes I think that the political puppets look a lot more like the politicians than the politicos themselves!
By
Steven McLachlan, at 2:45 AM
Seeing as your mentioned the Daily Show in this context...
I have their 'America: The Book' at home. At one point in the board game representing the development cycle of representative democracy, there's a comment like:
"Around this point, with an established free press, you can expect to see the development of satire. Ignore it. It can do no harm."
By
Lyndon, at 3:41 PM
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