The Daily Show and Philosophy Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News
by Holt, JasonEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-10-02
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
An entertaining and insightful examination of the Emmy-award winning American satirical news show, broadcast on Comedy Central in the US, and (in an edited edition) on More4 in the UK and CNN International around the world. Includes discussion of both The Daily Show and its spin-off show, The Colbert Report Showcases philosophers at their best, discussing truth, knowledge, reality and the American Way Highlights the razor sharp critical skills of Jon Stewart and his colleagues Faces tough and surprisingly funny questions about politics, religion, and power head on
Author Biography
Jason Holt is Assistant Professor at Acadia University. He is author of Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness (2003).
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. X |
| Introduction: Great Book, or the Greatest Book? | p. 1 |
| Headlines: Faux New is Good News | p. 3 |
| Amusing Ourselves to Death with Television News: Jon Stewart, Neil Postman, and the Huxleyan Warning | p. 5 |
| The Fake, the False, and the Fictional: The Daily Show as News Source | p. 16 |
| The Fake News as the Fifth Estate | p. 28 |
| The Good, the Bad, and The Daily Show | p. 41 |
| Correspondent's Report: Jon Stewart (Not Mill) as Philosopher, Sort of | p. 55 |
| Jon Stewart and the New Public Intellectual | p. 57 |
| Stewart and Socrates: Speaking Truth to Power | p. 69 |
| Can The Daily Show Save Democracy? Jon Stewart as the Gadfly of Gotham | p. 81 |
| Jon the Cynic: Dog Philosophy 101 | p. 93 |
| Regular Feature: Critical Thinking and the War On Bullshit | p. 105 |
| Public Discourse and the Stewart Model of Critical Thinking | p. 107 |
| The Daily Show's Expose of Political Rhetoric | p. 121 |
| Bullshit and Political Spin: Is the Medium the Massage? | p. 133 |
| Bullshitting Bullshitters and the Bullshit They Say | p. 146 |
| Interview: Religion, God, and Darwin | p. 159 |
| The Challenge of Religious Diversity in "This Week in God" | p. 161 |
| Contingency, Irony, and "This Week in God" | p. 175 |
| Evolution, Schmevolution: Jon Stewart and the Culture Wars | p. 190 |
| Checking in with Stephen Colbert/Your Moment of Zen: Beyond the Daily Show | p. 203 |
| America (The Book): Textbook Parody and Democratic Theory | p. 205 |
| The Daily Show/Colbert Report Guide to Neologizing | p. 217 |
| Truthiness, Self-Deception, and Intuitive Knowledge | p. 227 |
| Stephen Colbert, Irony, and Speaking Truthiness to Power | p. 240 |
| Senior Philosophical Correspondents | p. 252 |
| Index | p. 258 |
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