Role of Daily Shows on Democracy (Essay Sample)

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Introduction
As such, there have been many developments over the year in the ways of acquiring information. And today the main stream news is not the only source to get information. There are other ways that have emerged and these ways are but not limited to fake news. Fake news includes news that people get from such sources like daily shows and comedy shows. These shows play a key role in enlightening people and at the end of the day make people more aware of their society and more specifically their political environment. They use methods such as mimicry, mockery and satire to characterize leaders and politicians becomes key in determining the politics of the day. This paper is aimed at furthering the argument that fake news plays a key role in determining the politics of the day. One important thing that needs to be known is that those people that like watching comedy are politically conscious or rather political enlightened.
Fake news fosters democracy and political participation
Democracy can thrive well in the countries that have freedom of the media than those that have a skewed media. It is important that there is freedom of information on any country that aims to have a society that is developing. Freedom of information gives a chance for the society to receive information from any source they so wish. In such a society a variety of news source will thrive that will include sources such as social media, and even TV shows. Such shows, play a key role in getting the viewers not only entertained, but at the same time informed. The information might not seem to be mainstream, but it has some impact on the listeners. Though the information is termed as fake news the impact it has on the listeners is not such fake, but impactful. There are many ways that such kind of news rather referred to as fake news offer chance for the politicians to thrive.
Gives a chance for politicians to access the public
Daily shows provide a great chance for the politician to access the public and rather display their other personality away from politics. This show gives a chance for the citizen to identify with the politicians and thus look at them from the perspective that they are just human. Through the comic interaction the audience gets a chance to look at the politician from quite a different perspective they would have looked at them would it have been in a political rally. This makes the citizens to identify a person’s personality and relate it with the political ambitions of the person. In most cases politics have a way of painting the politicians in a manner that is not realistic, and it is only through comedy that such misconceptions can be demystified. In one way or the other this is a great source of news to the citizens, though, it may be seen as only being entertained. Though the main purpose of such shows or rather fake news as they call it, is to entertain at the end of the day they convey some massage to the viewers. Fortunately, the massage does not only end with the audience, but has a ripple effect on the larger public. In essence, these shows give the chance to the politicians to assert their pop culture and credibility while at the same time demonstrate that they have some sense of humor.
It is evident that the politicians that appear in this comic show enjoy quite a high popularity, especially amongst the citizen that have a less formed opinion. As such politicians will appeal much to these people because they can identify with them. Though critics will say that this is not a good way to gain popularity, but at the end of the day there is a great influence that is realized through these shows. When Obama stated appearing in the night shows as well as the daytime shows, many critics faulted this as not presidential and also some kind of misplaced priorities. But on the flip side of it all the political interviews that we see every other day provide the best chance to reach to the niche that would not have been reached by the mainstream news. I therefore advocate that these shows, play quite a vital role in the society and it is not right to just term them as fake news. There are some cases where people find it hard to tune into a news station to just listen to the politics of the day, but through the daily shows they get an idea of what is happening politically and this helps much in getting them enlightened.
This shows that are rather grouped as fake news have the ability either to popularize or defame a politician. In such a way, they play a big role in the enhancing of democracy. A politician who is criticized by the comedians in these shows will be deemed as unpopular and rarely will the public identify with this person. Though the audience does not get the information about he said politician from the main media they still have faith in what they get from the so called "fake News’ and as such form an opinion about the person. This just shows the power that these shows have on the entire scene of politics and the whole idea of democracy. The fact that people are free to get information from any source does not limit them to only get it from the main stream media. As such, they can still get it from these sources and form an opinion about it. There is no way then we can look upon this source since they play a critical role in the society and the niche in which they thrive in.
There has been a debate that many people have been holding for a time. The question is, can the daily shows challenge or do they have the power of challenging the frame preferred by political leaders over a particular issues? A good way to look at this is during the time of Bush where the daily shows played a big role in challenging the day’s government about their policy and war on Iraq. It emerged that the daily shows have a strong way of holding the politicians and the leader of the day accountable. In all cases this kind of news is not regulated as journalists are. So they can say things that journalists cannot say and in such a way they whirled the power to hold the leaders of the day accountable and in such a case change the opinion held by the politicians. In the case of the Iraq issue, it was the daily shows that first brought to the public the issues about the war. At this time the main stream media had not even heard anything about the issue. One best way that these shows do it is by juxtaposing some of the news footage to show the hypocrisy of the politicians (Popkin,). In one instance, a politician might say this and at some later time contradict themselves. In such a way the daily shows are able to point out the hypocrisy of these leaders and thus hold them accountable.
There is quite a great influence that is brought about by the daily shows especially to the youth and the young generation. The youth of today spends much of their time online from Facebook, to YouTube, to massages and video games on the variety of devices that are connected to the internet. This young generation is interested and appreciates politics as long as it is in the following ways. First, the massage should be presented in some kind of media. Secondary the must be precise and to the point. The massage should also be presented in a multi-sensory ways. This includes visual, auditory, kinesthetic and tactile amongst others. Lastly the massage must have some form of humor. If a massage is long it will not fit on the screen of the Smartphone or if the video is several minutes, then it will not fit with the switch time on the tablets. Daily shows fit exactly into these requirements and that is the reason they play an important role in transforming the youth. The massage in the daily shows is full of comics, it is short and precise it is attractive and thus the level of intensity at which it affects the audience is bigger. Many of this young people clamor to watch these shows and what they look at is not that the presenter is an icon, but rather a leader that brings them the news that is...