No joke: A comparison of substance in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and broadcast network television coverage of the 2004 presidential election campaign

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2007-06-01

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Fox, Julia R.
Koloen, Glory
Şahin, Volkan

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This study examined substantive political coverage of the first presidential debate and the political conventions in 2004 on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the broadcast television networks' nightly newscasts. The study found the networks' coverage to be more hype than substance and coverage on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to be more humor than substance. The amount of substantive information in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the broadcast network newscasts was the same, regardless of whether the unit of analysis was news stories about the presidential election campaign or the entire half-hour program.

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Communication

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37197

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JOURNAL OF BROADCASTING & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

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https://doi.org/10.1080/08838150701304621

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Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Article

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J. R. Fox, G. Koloen, and V. Şahin, “No joke: A comparison of substance in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and broadcast network television coverage of the 2004 presidential election campaign,” JOURNAL OF BROADCASTING & ELECTRONIC MEDIA, pp. 213–227, 2007, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37197.