The Daily show and philosophy : moments of zen in the art of fake news
Publication Information
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Physical Description
x, 270 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
- Amusing ourselves to death with television news : Jon Stewart, Neil Postman, and the Huxleyan warning / Gerald J. Erion
- The fake, the false, and the fictional : The daily show as news source / Michael Gettings
- The fake news as the fifth estate / Rachael Sotos
- The good, the bad, and The daily show / Jason Zinser
- Jon Stewart and the new public intellectual / Terrance MacMullan
- Stewart and Socrates : speaking truth to power / Judith Barad
- Can The daily show save democracy? Jon Stewart as the gadfly of Gotham / Steven Michels and Michael Ventimiglia
- Jon the cynic : dog philosophy 101 / Alejandro Bárcenas
- Public discourse and the Stewart model of critical thinking / Roben Torosyan
- The Daily Show's exposé of political rhetoric / Liam P. Dempsey
- Bullshit and political spin : is the medium the massage? / Kimberly A. Blessing and Joseph J. Marren
- Bullshitting bullshitters and the bullshit they say / Andrew Sneddon
- The challenge of religious diversity in "This week in God " / Matthew S. Lopresti
- Contingency, irony, and "This week in God"? / Brad Frazier
- Evolution, schmevolution : Jon Stewart and the culture wars / Massimo Pigliucci
- America (the book) : textbook parody and democratic theory / Steve Vanderheiden
- The daily show/Colbert report guide to neologizing / Jason Holt
- Truthiness, self-deception, and intuitive knowledge / Amber L. Griffioen
- Stephen Colbert, irony, and speaking truthiness to power / Kevin S. Decker.