n Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:14 AM, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Expect a few more pieces on the topic like this one from Vulture. While > its take can be gleaned from the URL, I don't expect everyone to be of the > same opinion. > > > http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/john-oliver-the-daily-shows-heir-apparent.html > > The takeaway, which I agree with..."People weren't necessarily expecting > Oliver to fail, but no one was predicting he'd be this good this quickly." > The piece does get into some speculation about what could have happened if > J-Stew left the show without having Oliver (or really anyone else > affiliated with TDS) do a trial run in the chair. I found part of it > annoying, but I could easily see a noisy conversation over getting a > political name to take over the hosting chair. It misses the whole media > criticism aspect of TDS, but it seems that a lot of people do. > I do expect almost everyone to feel the same way about Oliver. I thought he would be very good, and he was even better than I thought he would be. I think the most common misunderstanding of TDS is that it is primarily about political satire. Obviously it does do a lot of that, but its primary focus, almost always, is satirizing the news media. I think that is the main reason Stewart (and Oliver this summer) resists so much the label that TDS is the main source of news for young adults. It is a primary source of what real news outlets are doing badly. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
