Jon Stewart America s Politics And Pop Culture

In America, Jon Stewart popularized satirical news shows for Generation Y and Millenials, helping bridge the gap between more traditional news outlets like print newspaper and primetime news programming, with a more youthful Comedy Central-produced program that could be accessed on all mediums, including digital and mobile platforms. While in Europe, I was shocked by the amount of young Europeans that new of Jon Stewart and regularly watched his television program online in their home countries. Much of what they knew about America’s politics and pop culture came from Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, and some countries like the Netherlands even tried to create their own version of the program. Stewart presented complicated American politics†¦show more content†¦In a sense, the outside pressures can censor a person’s opinion as that person will be held to said opinion for as long as it is remembered. In modern day the ease of consuming news makes it so that the media relays the news of the day to information-seeking Americans, creating few major news channels to inform the masses, often with a political slant. Jon Stewart’s role as a political satirist and news host becomes crucial when placed against the major powers of CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. Jon Stewart began as host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central in 1998, about two years after Craig Kilborn had hosted it. He would continue hosting until announcing his retirement in 2015. Over his years as host, Stewart saw the switch in the media platforms Americans used to access their news, with more Americans switching to a digital platform, such as the 44 percent of Americans that used the Internet and mobile devices. Despite this switch in platforms, Americans in the 2000s spent just as much time as those in the mid-1990s at actually ingesting news, where the latter relied on more traditional platforms like primetime television and print newspapers. Public Figure Government Scrutinization In the modern day, it is a common practice for political satirists to note the move in the ideologies of the modern day Democratic and, more particularly, Republican parties. As Bill Maher, host of the left-leaning show Real