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Original Essays | February 8, 2012

Kent Hartman: IMG A Raider by Any Other Name

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Strange Bedfellows: How Late-night Comedy Turns Democracy Into a Joke (08 Edition)

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From Johnny Carson to Jon Stewart, to Stephen Colberts roasting of President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Strange Bedfellows explores what Americans have found so funny about our political institutions and the people who inhabit them, and asks what this says about the health of our democracy, Peterson shows how each brand of satire plays off a different level of Americans frustrations with politics.
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Author:
Peterson, Russell
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Author:
Peterson, Russell Leslie
Author:
Peterson, Russell L.
Subject:
Television comedies
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Television broadcasting of news
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Television - History & Criticism
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Television talk shows - United States
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Film and Television-Media Studies
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20080331
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HARDCOVER
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English
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Y
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280
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9.25 x 6.25 in
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