This week in class we discussed the topic of liberal media into more depth. To start with we watched a video from CNN’s Crossfire during the time of the 2004 presidential election. This was the one when Jon Stewart---the host of the Daily Show makes an appearance on the show. On the show, Jon Stewart runs into an argument with the hosts and accuses the hosts of not carrying out their jobs honestly and seriously. He blamed the two hosts of not conducting the debate on the show truthfully and that they were hurting America. He told them that they were supposed to deliver real, serious news and not entertainment. The two hosts accused Jon Stewart of doing the same. Jon Stewart in response to that argued that as a comedian, he was supposed to entertain the people.
After watching the debate, we openly discussed our viewpoints on the Jon Stewarts’ accusations. Most of us in the class, agreed with him but at the same came up with the interesting point that Jon Stewart should also attempt to make his show a little more current-news oriented because most of the young men in America get their daily news feed by watching his show which was scary because Jon is good as entertainment but not the best when it comes to getting serious news from his show.
Later this wee we talked about different kinds of media that exists. The class was divided into 5 groups and each group was assigned one type of media. The group’s job was to come up with any kind of political bias that we could find in our respective media. My group is assigned the ‘Internet’ as the media. So my group members have decided to check out a variety of websites where we can potentially find political bias. We have one week to do some research and at the end of the next week, we are expected to present, to the class, a brief presentation on our findings.
