What are thoughts about political media as entertainment

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Assignment:

Task 1

Think about how the framing, and agenda-setting, phenomenistic filtering, and other relative bias of news media outlets - broadcast, print and online - are driving the story and influencing public attitudes culturally and politically.

Your objective here is to ponder how information sources such as these may be turning the internet into an alternative "public square" to the mainstream mass media. Then response to the following question

1. What is the issue/story you analyzed for framing, filtering, and relative bias? Please briefly summarize the story and provide the url for us.

2. How are the "legacy" and "new" news media influencing public attitudes culturally and/or politically on this topic?

Task 2

Address one of the following questions in a cogent response:

What are your thoughts about political media as entertainment, such as "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah," "Jimmy Kimmel Live," and "Saturday Night Live"?
Are these shows like "Late Night with Seth Meyers" informing, entertaining or editorializing, and is this worrisome? Should news be entertaining?
Are bloggers, podcasters, and pundits crossing the line from news to editorializing with their biased questions, interpretative news, and public advocacy? Or are they adding the kind of texture and depth to the news that unbiased writers can't offer?
Do pundits give journalists a bad name? What exactly qualifies one to be a "pundit"? Was Jon Stewart a pundit? Chris Matthews? Larry King? Lou Dobbs? What, if anything, separates a pundit from a journalist?
What about the people who are recording history in real time as part of what futurist Jamais Cascio calls "participatory panopticon" - the personal photographic and video content on the internet that he believes can be utilized as an up-to-date, authoritative source on all human activities. Are such reports objective truth of the kind the late Ben Bradlee, John Seigenthaler, Mike Wallace, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Gwen Ifill, and so many other 20th century journalists worked so hard to present?

In fact, what makes the information credible? How can we be sure?

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