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	<title>Comments on: Going After the Bigot Vote</title>
	<link>http://www.proudprogressive.org/blog/2008/01/28/going-after-the-bigot-vote/</link>
	<description>A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Matt</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprogressive.org/blog/2008/01/28/going-after-the-bigot-vote/#comment-209</link>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>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.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;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:<br />
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<p>I&#8217;m actually just starting my class&#8217;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&#8217;t find parodies like this funny because they don&#8217;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&#8217;t be watching the show if they weren&#8217;t already well informed. Based on the experience with my students, I would probably agree with him.</p>
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