I got more of an Amy Goodman vibe from the whole piece, but YMMV. As for South Park, while the equal opportunity skewering is certainly there, the writer seems to conflate subversion with scat. While I'll watch more of it than Kevin, I think he has a point about the show possibly numbing its audience with repeated shocks, or adult swim-style dives into jokes that were probably much funnier in the writers room.
David ________________________________ From: Tom Wolper <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Baffler Calls Stewart, Colbert 'Quacks' On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > The famously contrarian, pop culture-hating (unless it's hardocre punk) > lefty zine gets postal on Comedy Central's 11 p.m. lineup: "Our lazy > embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic > standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and > snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our > golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate > plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive > angst and rage.": > > http://thebaffler.com/past/the_jokes_on_you It sounds like people worshiping at the altar of Hicks. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
