Satire
People need the truth, and people need entertainment. Those are two of the main reasons most people watch TV…to get facts and news, and for entertainment. So a successful combination of these two things, SATIRE, is bound to do well.
Generally, public news is very factual, but can be serious and sometunes even depressing. For instance, read this article on the “Modern Jack Ripper” and tell me it’s uplifing. However, we all must approach the truth somehow, even the biggest problems in society, and it won’t happen throught watching popular sporting events. So what can we do?
How about covering the important problems in a very sarcastic, funny way, while basically ignoring the real detailed facts which will probably cause nothing but grief and confusion. Satire is a great way to approach any issue, no matter how minor, as it is meant to be entertainment and does not necessarily have to be important, like the news must be. It’s an important tool in putting problems into words while leaving what to do about it to the common person. People do not want to learn about a serious problem without any offered solution to it…so why not just expose it in the form of entertainment and laugh it off? Then, later on, the person may reflect on that issue without somehow hating the satirical program for it.
I was about to add a short satirical clip from youtube, but the school computer won’t let me go there so I’ll just add it later. (Be warned, if any of you are pro-Bush, there is an anti-Bush message in there, so don’t watch it. And don’t whine to me about how untrue it is, because it’s completely your fault that you did not read this message or did not listen to it.)
EDIT: Here it is. Remember, it’s offensive to Bush lovers. If you start whining to me about my views on Bush, I’ll just make fun of you for not being able to follow the simplest of simple instructions.
December 13th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
I like your defintion of a Satire as a combination of news and comedy. I think satire’s take a subject and talk about it in a funny way but they also have another meaning to them in a comcial way.