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• Takes a sweeping look at the role of political humor in framing
the nation’s political discourse, putting an entertaining topic
in context with serious political analysis. • Offers the first
look at political humor during the Biden years and projects past
them to the evolution of political humor post-Trump. • Combines
content analysis of leading late-night programs and public opinion
studies from other sources, including the Pew Research Center,
showing students the importance of empirical research and analysis.
• Focuses on the very latest aspects of the social media age –
and on comedy programs very popular with young adults – speaking
to college-age readers in particular. • Takes a unique
interdisciplinary/mixed-methodology approach to American political
humor, from political science, communication studies, media
studies, and other fields.
• Takes a sweeping look at the role of political humor in framing
the nation’s political discourse, putting an entertaining topic
in context with serious political analysis. • Offers the first
look at political humor during the Biden years and projects past
them to the evolution of political humor post-Trump. • Combines
content analysis of leading late-night programs and public opinion
studies from other sources, including the Pew Research Center,
showing students the importance of empirical research and analysis.
• Focuses on the very latest aspects of the social media age –
and on comedy programs very popular with young adults – speaking
to college-age readers in particular. • Takes a unique
interdisciplinary/mixed-methodology approach to American political
humor, from political science, communication studies, media
studies, and other fields.
Does late night political humor matter? Are late-night comedians
merely entertaining, or do they have the power to influence the way
we think about politics and politicians? Politics Is a Joke!
situates late night comedy in the historical context of political
humor and demonstrates how the public turn to this venue for
political information, and are in turn affected by it.Using
exclusive data collected by the Center for Media and Public
Affairs, the authors conduct a detailed and exhaustive analysis of
political jokes on late night TV shows dating back to 1992 in order
to pinpoint the main targets and themes of late-night comedy.
Politics Is a Joke! uses a wide range of examples, from jokes about
politicians' physical appearance and sex scandals to jokes about
Congress and even the news media, to assess and understand the
impact of political humor on political institutions, politicians
and their policies and behavior.Engagingly written with analysis of
jokes from comedians like Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and
Stephen Colbert, Politics is a Joke! is essential reading for
anyone who wants to understand the crucial role late night comedy
plays in our political universe - and anyone who enjoys a good
laugh.
Political humor has been a staple of late-night television for
decades. The Trump White House, however, has received significantly
greater attention than that of past presidents, such as Barack
Obama, George W. Bush, and even Bill Clinton. In response to
Trump's strident politics, late-night comics, including Stephen
Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Trevor Noah and Jimmy Fallon, have sounded
key policy notes, further blurring the boundary between news and
satire. Weekly humorists, including John Oliver and Samantha Bee,
extend the critique with in-depth probing of key issues, while
Saturday Night Live continues to tap the progression from outrage
to outrageousness. Using unique content analysis techniques and
qualitative discussions of political humor, Farnsworth and Lichter
show how late-night political humor, and these seven programs in
particular, have responded to the Trump presidency. Employing a
dataset of more than 100,000 late night jokes going back decades,
these noted media scholars discuss how the treatment of Trump
differs from previous presidents, and how the Trump era is likely
to shape the future of political humor. The authors also employ
public opinion survey data to consider the growing role these
late-night programs play in framing public opinion and priorities.
This book will interest scholars, the curious public, and students
of politics, communications and the media, and contemporary
American culture.
Political humor has been a staple of late-night television for
decades. The Trump White House, however, has received significantly
greater attention than that of past presidents, such as Barack
Obama, George W. Bush, and even Bill Clinton. In response to
Trump's strident politics, late-night comics, including Stephen
Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Trevor Noah and Jimmy Fallon, have sounded
key policy notes, further blurring the boundary between news and
satire. Weekly humorists, including John Oliver and Samantha Bee,
extend the critique with in-depth probing of key issues, while
Saturday Night Live continues to tap the progression from outrage
to outrageousness. Using unique content analysis techniques and
qualitative discussions of political humor, Farnsworth and Lichter
show how late-night political humor, and these seven programs in
particular, have responded to the Trump presidency. Employing a
dataset of more than 100,000 late night jokes going back decades,
these noted media scholars discuss how the treatment of Trump
differs from previous presidents, and how the Trump era is likely
to shape the future of political humor. The authors also employ
public opinion survey data to consider the growing role these
late-night programs play in framing public opinion and priorities.
This book will interest scholars, the curious public, and students
of politics, communications and the media, and contemporary
American culture.
Does late night political humor matter? Are late-night comedians
merely entertaining, or do they have the power to influence the way
we think about politics and politicians? "Politics Is a Joke "
situates late night comedy in the historical context of political
humor and demonstrates how the public turn to this venue for
political information, and are in turn affected by it.
Using exclusive data collected by the Center for Media and Public
Affairs, the authors conduct a detailed and exhaustive analysis of
political jokes on late night TV shows dating back to 1992 in order
to pinpoint the main targets and themes of late-night comedy.
"Politics Is a Joke " uses a wide range of examples, from jokes
about politicians' physical appearance and sex scandals to jokes
about Congress and even the news media, to assess and understand
the impact of political humor on political institutions,
politicians and their policies and behavior.
Engagingly written with analysis of jokes from comedians like Jay
Leno, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, "Politics is
a Joke " is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand
the crucial role late night comedy plays in our political
universe--and anyone who enjoys a good laugh.
Anthrax scares. Airplane crashes. The AIDS epidemic. Presidential election polls and voting results. Global warming. All these news stories require scientific savvy, first to report, and then-for the average person-to understand. It Ain't Necessarily So cuts through the confusion and inaccuracies surrounding media reporting of scientific studies, surveys, and statistics. Whether the problem is bad science, media politics, or a simple lack of information or knowledge, this book gives news consumers the tools to penetrate the hype and dig out the facts.
In The Global President: International Communication and the US
Government, scholars Stephen J. Farnsworth, S. Robert Lichter and
Roland Schatz provide an expansive international examination of
news coverage of US political communication, and the roles the US
government and the Presidency play in an increasingly communicative
and interconnected political world. This comprehensive yet concise
text will engage and inform students in many intersecting
disciplines, as it includes analyses of not just the Presidency,
but US foreign policy and contemporary political media itself. The
media developed to keep pace with the headwinds of political change
are being asked more and more to adapt to and enhance the ways in
which policy-makers, voters, and students make sense of the process
of governance. The realities of an ever-changing political
landscape are magnified nowhere more greatly than in the realm of
foreign policy, and the stakes surrounding the need for quality
communicational skills are no higher than at 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue because - when the voices of the US government speak - the
world is listening. This book provides students a perfect entry
point into the complex and amorphous relationship between media and
government, where that relationship has been, and where it looks to
be heading in the future.
In The Global President: International Communication and the US
Government, scholars Stephen J. Farnsworth, S. Robert Lichter and
Roland Schatz provide an expansive international examination of
news coverage of US political communication, and the roles the US
government and the Presidency play in an increasingly communicative
and interconnected political world. This comprehensive yet concise
text will engage and inform students in many intersecting
disciplines, as it includes analyses of not just the Presidency,
but US foreign policy and contemporary political media itself. The
media developed to keep pace with the headwinds of political change
are being asked more and more to adapt to and enhance the ways in
which policy-makers, voters, and students make sense of the process
of governance. The realities of an ever-changing political
landscape are magnified nowhere more greatly than in the realm of
foreign policy, and the stakes surrounding the need for quality
communicational skills are no higher than at 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue because - when the voices of the US government speak - the
world is listening. This book provides students a perfect entry
point into the complex and amorphous relationship between media and
government, where that relationship has been, and where it looks to
be heading in the future.
Media reports on environmental cancer are frequent and frightening.
Public policy-and public spending-reflect widespread concern over
the presence of carcinogens in our air and water and food. Yet how
reliable is mass media information about environmental cancer? How
accurate are the risk assessments that underlie our public policy
decisions? In this provocative book, S. Robert Lichter and Stanley
Rothman examine the controversies surrounding environmental cancer
and place them in historical perspective. Then, drawing on surveys
of cancer researchers and environmental activists, they reveal that
there are sharp differences between the two groups` viewpoints on
environmental cancer. Despite these differences, a further
comparison-between the views of the two groups and the content of
television and newspaper accounts over a two-decade period-shows
that press reports most frequently cite the views of environmental
activists as if they were the views of the scientific community.
These findings cast doubt on the objectivity of the news media and
environmental activists. And, the authors conclude, misplaced fears
about the risks of environmental cancer have seriously distorted
public policy and priorities.
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