Assignment 3

I decided to compare the Daily Show's segment on  the victorys of the tea party over the republicans to Olberman's segment on the tea party victorys. . More specifically the segments I focused on was Christine O'Donnel who had a major upset in Delaware.  First off there was a significant time difference in the two. The Daily show's segment ran for four minutes and thirty four seconds, while Olberman's segment ran for one minute and forty four seconds. The Daily show though averaged and impressive fifty two seconds of actual hard news. Olberman only used ten seconds on actual hard new. The rest of Olberman's segment was him teasing data, and inserting hypotheticals in order to prove O'Donnel was not capable of defeating the Democrat in the primary. The Daily show used its time to tell jokes, and play an anti masturbation video, that Christine O'Donnel filmed a while back. My issue with Olberman, is that he and his network present themselves as the news. This can confuse some people and have them accept Olberman's opinions as fact. In other words it errodes what is left of the ability to think for ourselves. Stewart and the rest of the Daily show team, present themselves as a Joke. They don't try to put on airs. If in the process of getting a few laughs you end up learning something about current events, that is just icing on the cake so to speak.