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um, are you aware that Daily Show is satire and not really 'newspeople'. Just saying. "See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter."
Yes, but the Daily Show also showed clips from actual news programs, and they are certainly clueless.
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Yes, but the Daily Show also showed clips from actual news programs, and they are certainly clueless.
No, they're not. They have staff reading reddit, Hacker News, Slashdot, etc. in order to find interesting news leads to sensationalize. It's THEIR JOB.
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That’s both mean and strange. What possible gain could there be from excluding the UK and (seemingly) allowing access in continental Europe?
IIRC, (a version of) The Daily Show is broadcast on UK television. We wouldn't want competition now, would we?
"ChatRoulette is like regular roulette, but five of the chambers are filled with cock." Strangely profound statement. As always, he does a magnificent job of making the mainstream media look like morons.
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Yes, but the Daily Show also showed clips from actual news programs, and they are certainly clueless.
No, they're not. They have staff reading reddit, Hacker News, Slashdot, etc. in order to find interesting news leads to sensationalize. It's THEIR JOB.
Most reddit users know what ChatRoulette is because there have been some funny submissions about it, but that doesn't most other people know about ChatRoulette.
However these people are finding these things, they are clearly not performing due diligence; ChatRoulette is not a "craze". Only a small segment even knew it existed until CNN and everyone else started running stories about it.
For example, http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chatroulette.com shows an almost 600% 1-month increase in reach for chatroulette. Stories about ChatRoulette started showing up on CNN.com in February. Also, it's traffic is up 83,300% over the last three months. Alexa only grabs data from a small fraction of Internet Explorer users. Heh.
On a side note, I would have loved a cameo appearance from Chris Hansen and the To Catch A Predator crew.
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No, they're not. They have staff reading reddit, Hacker News, Slashdot, etc. in order to find interesting news leads to sensationalize. It's THEIR JOB.
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Brian Williams really has some phenomenal comedy cameos. I'm thinking of 30 Rock, and it seems like he keeps popping up all over the place.
You're not allowed to submit links like this to HN, because HN is too serious and important for humor. Cue the censorious "we're becoming just like reddit" comments...
Sadly, you think the Mainstream Media would realize that viewers are not as afraid of the internets as they were back in the 90s. There is a reason why more people watch the Daily Show for their news these days. On a side note, I would have loved a cameo appearance from Chris Hansen and the To Catch A Predator crew.
"Sit down. Have a seat, Jon. So what are you doing here?"