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Strange bedfellows

Russell Leslie Peterson

2008
History And Criticism Television Broadcasting Of News Television Comedies

A significant number of Americans get some of their "news" about politics and national affairs from comedy shows. Is "infotainment" a debasement, or a replacement, for traditional news outlets?

Bossypants
3.6 19 votes
I Am America (And So Can You!)
3.9 23 votes
Front Desk
4.6 18 votes
The Audacity of Hope
3.6 17 votes
Why nations fail
3.6 25 votes
No Place to Hide
4.1 18 votes
America (the book)
3.6 18 votes
The Color Purple
4.2 74 votes
Midnight's Children
3.9 34 votes
1776
4.3 16 votes
The fire next time
4.5 30 votes
The Prince
3.8 81 votes
The Hunger Games
4.1 401 votes
Stoner
4.3 35 votes
The Hate U Give
4.4 108 votes
Between the World and Me
4.2 38 votes
A Midsummer Night's Dream
3.7 72 votes
A New Earth
3.8 20 votes
Infinite jest
4.2 28 votes
All the Pretty Horses
3.9 19 votes
Batman
4.4 32 votes
The Plot Against America
3.7 26 votes
Red, White & Royal Blue
4.2 157 votes
The gifts of imperfection
4.1 17 votes
Show Your Work!
3.8 19 votes
A People's History of the United States
4.0 35 votes
Amusing Ourselves to Death
4.2 23 votes
The duckling gets a cookie!?
4.7 20 votes
God Is Not Great
3.9 30 votes
The Wealth of Nations
4.1 27 votes
Catching Fire
4.1 228 votes
Lincoln in the Bardo
4.1 18 votes
The Running Man
3.8 29 votes
Omnivore's Dilemma. A Natural History of Four Meals
4.2 41 votes
Better Than the Movies
3.6 44 votes
The alchemist
4.0 16 votes
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
3.6 17 votes
The alchemist, 1612
4.2 26 votes
One second after
4.0 21 votes
Goosebumps - Night of the Living Dummy
4.3 16 votes
Free will
3.6 18 votes
The Drunkard's Walk
4.0 20 votes
Einstein
4.2 23 votes
I am number four
3.6 15 votes
Born to Run
4.5 23 votes
How to Write a Movie in 21 Days
3.8 16 votes
Invisible Man
4.1 16 votes
Giovanni's Room
4.2 29 votes