Part of the surprise, publishers said, is that the Comedy Central audience is more serious than its reputation allows. The public may still think of the “Daily Show” and “Colbert Report” audience as a group of sardonic slackers, Gen-Y college students who prefer YouTube to print.I just looove the patronizing tone, too, of "the public." It should be obvious by this point that the Daily Show and Colbert Report are actually serious political shows that make their points using satire and the like. The writer and editor of this story were just plain lazy in falling back on the old trope of disengaged slackers.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
When does a cliche crawl off in the corner and die?
Still waiting for an answer in this NY Times story:
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Two items:
1) In every time and place, the disengaged slackers of yesteryear will become the engaged workforce of today, because the generation that views us as "Gen-Y slackers" will grow old, retire, and die. In turn, I suppose I will view all those born in the noughts as wastrel spendthrifts, and be surprised when serious e-text authors appear on their headvision dramedy shows.
2) "“The 1/2 Hour News Hour” on Fox, the conservative answer to the Comedy Central shows, had its premiere with 1.5 million viewers last Sunday but does not plan to do author interviews, a Fox spokeswoman said."
Quelle suprise!
To be fair, Jon Stewart himself made a big deal about airing after a show featuring puppets making crank phone calls.
That said, I agree that this (and many other)cliches only endure because of the laziness of most journalists.
Books are filled with the latte sipping media elite's lies. Don't play that game.
Oops. Now I see that cliches are fun!
Yes, Jon Stewart certainly played up the Crank Yankers thing, but only in response to people's noticing that, hey!, his show's a pretty serious endeavor. He does satire--he's got to take everything down a peg, especially himself.
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