Going After the Bigot Vote
Jan 28th, 2008 by nick
Sometimes comedy is the best medium for pointing out ridiculous political positions. This hilarious satirical newscast from The Onion critiques politicians’ homophobic pandering.
Mitt Romney Defends Himself Against Allegations Of Tolerance
I’m glad I’m subscribed to your RSS feed because I tuned into the Onion just in time to catch this breaking news story, a perfect teachable moment for my Earth science class:
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/breaking_news_series_of
I’m actually just starting my class’s unit on earthquakes, so it really is perfect timing. I like showing entertaining little video clips that I find on YouTube. Unfortunately, my students don’t find parodies like this funny because they don’t understand either the content being ridiculed or the true medium of news shows being parodied. Basically, I think that real news shows sound equally ridiculous to them as the fake news (and my class every day, for that matter). A while back, I heard John Stewart defending his audience by saying that they wouldn’t be watching the show if they weren’t already well informed. Based on the experience with my students, I would probably agree with him.