the daily show vs. the colbert report- Whats going on

Last week on the daily show John Stewart announced that he would be having a rally: A “rally to restore sanity”. By doing this he hopes to convince America to “tone it down a notched” and to stop drawing Hitler mustaches on anyone except Hitler. After his announcement though Steven Colbert of the Colbert report announced that he too would be hosting an event; the “march to keep fear alive”. Both Steven and john have a point to their given rallies. On johns side I agree that it seems every single thing that happens the news makes it seem like life as we know it is about to come to an end. Does everyone that does something we don’t agree with have to be Hitler? Maybe turning it down a notch isn’t too bad, but then again Steven has a point to. So many things do seem to be wrong that this is in no way the time for complacency. Something, whether it is everyone chilling out, or everyone rioting in the streets needs to be done, and these two news casters have the power, I believe, to make it happen. I fear though that they won’t use this power to accomplish anything though, instead I think this is all put here to make fun of glen beck.



http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/359382/september-16-2010/march-to-keep-fear-alive-announcement

obama vs. fox news

as the video at the bottom of this post says, presidents and the press have always been at war. no one is going to agree with everything a president does, and even fewer will agree if the news paints them in a negative light. fox news openly claims to not be liberal. they say they are fair and balanced. some people think that means they are conservative and some think they are telling the truth, it really depends on if you agree with them or not. whether they are conservative or fair doesnt matter though, cause what ever you believe about them you cant deny that they are not fans of Obama. being so obama is not a fan of fox, and recently he has tried to fight back. presidents before have tried this before in some instances, and in some cases they have won. obamas tactics have bordered on the illegal though, with an attempt to block them out of interviews. An act of which was so upsetting to every news station that the competition even spoke out about it till obamas administration decided to reverse that decision. and rightly so. the president is the most powerful man in the country, but if he tries to use that power to silence those that dont agree with him democracy dies right then and there. that is the number one fundamental right we have, freedom of speech, that separates us from these 3rd world dictatorships. if he wants to refuse interviews with them (which he has) thats his right, but to block them from press conferences and only allow people that agree with him to join in, that is horribly horribly wrong!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ1gkLqBmlg

How to apologize using mass media (after mass media forces you to do so)

Before the technological age we lived in, if you really felt bad about something you had done to someone you would tell them “I’m sorry”. You could meet them in person, write them a letter, call them on the phone etc… it was a very private thing. Only you and the person you had wronged had to know you had messed up. Today our media crazed minds demand more of our celebrity gods though. When Kanye West did the whole Taylor swift thing, he didn’t just wrong one person, he wronged everyone that sings her songs and enjoys her music. Thus slipping her a note reading “yo Taylor girl sorry for all that beyonce s**t up on the stage, ya know I love ya. Sorry for reals.” Wouldn’t cut it. Thankfully for him though the little invention of twitter has been created. Now if he wants to apologize to Taylor swift (almost a year later when the next music awards are coming up and he needs public support to win), he can simply write: “I’m sorry Taylor” on twitter and his 700,000 fans can get the message and pass it on to everyone else that’s still angry with him, thus giving everyone a since that he has apologized for hurting them as well.

As much as I’d hate to say it though, I still have to agree with Obama and his original comments about Kanye.

How Twitter Helped Resurrect Kanye West

freedom of religion vs freedom of speech

Every time I turn on the news (which is usually the Daily Show or Colbert Report) there seems to be some form of the ground zero mosque story going on. it seems everyone has an opinion on it. Personally I side with those that would do whatever it takes to keep the mosque from being built, but I know that the law is on the side of the Muslims. There really is no legal reason they shouldn’t be able to build whatever they want under freedom of religion. Freedom of religion usually goes hand in hand with freedom of speech though, which is why I don’t understand this article I recently came across: “State Department Condemns Rabbi Who Prayed for Death to All Palestinians”. Just like the mosque, there is no legal reason why someone shouldn’t be able to pray what they want to pray. Where are the people fighting for the rabbi’s rights though?

Yes I understand that publicly praying for the death of anyone is controversial at best, but so is building a monument to a religion that, whether you agree or not, I feel is responsible for the largest attack on civilians in our country ever. I just don’t understand why so many people stepped forward to support freedom of religion, but no one has said a thing about freedom of speech.

fox vs. cnn

when ever i think of politics in media i always think of the 2 news giants: FOX News and CNN. Ive learned from other people that many find FOX to be conservative and CNN to be liberal (my grandfather likes to call it Clinton News Network). these news channels cant make up the news though, so how could the possibly be different. something thats news worthy for a republican should be news worth to a democrat to right?
well in trying to discover if thats true or not i pulled up both there web pages side by side to see what each one thinks is the most important stories for the day.
http://www.foxnews.com/
http://www.cnn.com/
what i found is actually kind of funny! the first one i looked at was fox news. as soon as the page opens you see a giant picture of an old guy and next to that picture is written in huge letters "NO NRA Endorsement for Reid in Nevada Senate Race". what could possibly be more republican than the NRA. FOX isn't the only one playing on political stereo types though, CNN is just as bad. if republican is to NRA then democrat is to...... you guessed it Rev. Al Sharpton! lol but no really the first articel on CNN's page reads "Sharpton: Beck has the mall, we have the message." that tittle really didnt mean anything to me, so i clicked on the article and started reading. apparently what the article is about is a critisism of and event held by Glen Beck and the Lincon Monument. so not only is it a highly democrat article, but its also the democrates and the republicans fighting with each other, further showing what side of the political line they fall on.
as different as they are though, both news stations have a lot in common though. boths first article is politically motivated, but both also have the same theme for the second article.
CNN: "in the shadow of the levees"
FOX; "Katrina, five years after: a coastline changes forever?"

so really, in conclusion. wether your republican or democrate, both CNN and FOX news report on the same things, they just give different perspectives. so if your worried about lossing your guns watch FOX and if your worried about glen beck watch CNN!