Although a wealth of useful information, television has become a higher form of entertainment than an intellectual source. Between the reality and contestant shows, there aren't many ways that the general public can digest political information.
The Daily Show and
The Colbert Report do provide current event analysis for young people, although analyzed as extreme leftist and manipulated by the
Fox news answer on the
O'reilly Factor. If true, O'reilly's presented some scary facts about the young population concerning their knowledge base, but they tried to correlate this with the liberal media impact, which I could not buy. Whether left or right, it is evident that television can be a tool for information or for blind entertainment. On Wednesday's episode of
The Daily Show, Stewart discusses how the Royal Wedding has out-shined real news and the effects of the birth certificate release by Obama.
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