Political Science 2192A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fake News, Bene Gesserit, Larry Wilmore
10 Nov 2020
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Fake news creates political cynicism: daily show effect: baumgartner and morris - negative portrayal of candidates = negative view, hart and hartelius: young learn language of cynicism from fake news; can lead to disengagement. Support: tryon : john stewart seeks to better politicians and politics: critiques political system. Jones: attack complicity of media in discourses of power and powerful: media part of problem, against, too much focus on specific issues. Jones: fake news emerged through investigative news w satire. Time to get real: real time w bill maher. Jones: popularity is due to capacity to present common sense vernacular: talk about politics how average people talk about it. Daily show show-down: daily show - jon stewart, trevor noah, questions that political media serves public interests, critic of political, culture, media, toolbox: news, commentary, parody, interview, "titled correspondence" = poke fun of how media works, merchandise.
