News Parody and Political Satire Across the Globe
In recent years, the US fake news program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has become a surprisingly important source of information, conversation, and commentary about public affairs. Perhaps more surprisingly, so-called fake news is now a truly global phenomenon, with various forms of news parody and political satire programming appearing throughout the world.
This collection of innovative chapters takes a close and critical look at global news parody from a wide range of countries including the USA and the UK, Italy and France, Hungary and Romania, Israel and Palestine, Iran and India, Australia, Germany, and Denmark. Traversing a range of national cultures, political systems, and programming forms, News Parody and Political Satire Across the Globe offers insight into the central and perhaps controversial role that news parody has come to play in the world, and explores the multiple forces that enable and constrain its performance. It will help readers to better understand the intersections of journalism, politics, and comedy as they take shape across the globe in a variety of political and media systems.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Popular Communication.
Geoffrey Baym is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA. He is the author of From Cronkite to Colbert: The Evolution of Broadcast News (2010) and numerous articles and book chapters on the changing nature of news media and political discourse.
Jeffrey P. Jones is Director of the Institute of Humanities at Old Dominion University, USA. The author of Entertaining Politics: Satiric Television and Political Engagement, 2nd edition (2010), he is also co-editor of Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era (2009) and The Essential HBO Reader (2008).
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News Parody in Global Perspective: Politics, Power, and Resistance
Geoffrey Baym and Jeffrey P. Jones
Popular Communication, volume 10, issues 12 (February 2012)
pp. 213
Find Out Exactly What to ThinkNext!: Chris Morris, Brass Eye, and Journal-istic Authority
Graham Meikle
Popular Communication, volume 10, issues 12 (February 2012)
pp. 1426
From the Little Aussie Bleeder to Newstopia: (Really) Fake News in Australia
Stephen Harrington
Popular Communication, volume 10, issues 12 (February 2012)
pp. 2739
No Strings Attached? Les Guignols de linfo and French Television
Waddick Doyle
Popular Communication, volume 10, issues 12 (February 2012)
pp. 4051
The Comical Inquisition: Striscia la Notizia and the Politics of Fake News on Italian Television
Gabriele Cosentino
Popular Communication, volume 10, issues 12 (February 2012)
pp. 5265
Localizing The Daily Show: The heute show in Germany
Katharina Kleinen-von Knigslw and Guido Keel
Popular Communication, volume 10, issues 12 (February 2012)
pp. 6679
Transgressing Boundaries as the Hybrid Global: Parody and Postcoloniality on Indian Television
Sangeet Kumar
Popular Communication, volume 10, issues 12 (February 2012)
pp. 8093
Satire in the Holy Wonderland: The Comic Framing of Arab Leaders in Israel
Limor Shifman
Popular Communication, volume 10, issues 12 (February 2012)
pp. 94105
Out of Control: Palestinian News Satire and Government Power in the Age of Social Media
Matt Sienkiewicz
Popular Communication, volume 10, issues 12 (February 2012)
pp. 106118
The Geopolitics of Parazit, the Iranian Televisual Sphere, and the Global Infra-structure of Political Humor
Mehdi Semati
Popular Communication, volume 10, issues 12 (February 2012)
pp. 119130
The Witty Seven: Late Socialist-Capitalist Satire in Hungary
Anik Imre
Popular Communication, volume 10, issues 12 (February 2012)
pp. 131144
The Tattlers Tattle: Fake News, Linguistic National Intimacy, and New Media in Romania
Alice Bardan
Popular Communication, volume 10, issues 12 (February 2012)
pp. 145157
Political Satire in Danish Television: Reinventing a Tradition
Hanne Bruun
Popular Communication, volume 10, issues 12 (February 2012)
pp. 158169
Live From New York, Its the Fake News! Saturday Night Live and the (Non)Politics of Parody
Amber Day and Ethan Thompson
Popular Communication, volume 10, issues 12 (February 2012)
pp. 170182
