Being a pretty non-political person I feel it is false to say that Satire is a poor source of news. Sure it makes fun, and pokes at the truth but after watching an episode of Jon Stewart or Steven Colbert majority of people will have obtained new information they did not know prior. I feel Satire was made for the people who don't want to sit down and have a straight forward open discussion about politics, such as Rush Limbaugh's show. Jon Stewart didn't necessarily choose a side and argue against the other, he sort of played devil's advocate, in a sense, towards both sides and let the audience (us) think for ourselves. Where as Rush clearly has one side and aggressively sticks with it.
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