Who needs to watch the network news when you've seen The Daily Show? Today's episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart was funny yet informative. Although I watched the Network News, I was much more informed after watching Jon do his thing. The show was broken down into three parts: Swine Flu, White House apology to NYC, and a very informative interview with the Christine Lagarde, the French Finance Minister.
I noticed that Jon Stewart uses the network news as part of his jokes and also to give the background information for his jokes. When discussing the Swine Flu, Jon Stewart showed clips from ABC, CNN, MSNBC, and FOX news and turned what they said into jokes. In a satirical manner, Jon insisted that the media is the reason we as a society are freaking out about this "pandemic". He then compared far fetched news to practical news, with a reporter from the "Center for Disease Control" and a reporter from "Center For Stuff I heard from Some Guy". In the end of the spoof, the far fetched news prevailed.
He then moved on to the White House apology to New York City for flying a 747 over ground zero for a photo-op, insisting they wanted to see what it would look like to fly air force one over ground zero and scared the living daylights out of New York City. What's worse is no one even told the mayor this was happening! In this story, Jon Stewart uses the media as the foundation to later create his joke, as opposed to the first part of the show, where he used the network news as his joke.
He ended the show with a wonderful interview with Christine Legarde. He asked her hard hitting questions that allowed me to better understand how the current economic depression is effecting Europe and what France is doing about it. She informed the audience that France is in the same boat as everyone else, but is using strict regulation. She already fired bankers and is imposing penalties. When Jon asked which country is more socialist between the US and France, she stated both are free markets, yet France's has a lot of safety nets, including more benefits, something President Obama is doing, which will lead to a more stabilized economy in the long run. Our country is moving in France's direction.
Overall, the show was informative and funny. I got my news, but I was entertained as well. The network news may have covered more, but in less detail, not to mention much less entertaining.
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