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Stephen Colbert on the Media
Say what you will about the media and its consistent utter failure to provide the nation with important information about its government and society.
The Colbert Report airs Monday through Thursday at 11:30/10:30c.
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John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman Take on Rupert Murdoch from Inside His Own House
From The CC Insider…
The News of the World phone-hacking scandal is probably the biggest phone-related scandal ever (and that's counting all the phone-related scandals that involved penises!) But you wouldn't know it from reading News Corp. owned papers. Even the New York Post somehow restrained their infinite amount of monkeys banging away at an infinite amount of typewriters.But in the nether regions of the Internet, a podcast rose up. John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman record a podcast together called The Bugle for The Times of London, a Murdoch owned paper. They somehow flew under the radar and mined the comedy-rich territory…
As some Murdoch-owned media properties chose to minimize the unfolding scandal, Mr. Skinner and the pair of comedians behind the podcast, Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver, went straight for the jugular. The Bugle, among the most popular comedy podcasts in Britain with roughly 400,000 weekly downloads, spent three weeks hammering their corporate owners, News International, and Mr. Murdoch himself.
This is significant considering how much power Rupert Murdoch has over shaping the perception of the trial and just how little his media empire chose to cover the scandal. John and Andy seemed pretty aware of that fact as they dug into Rupert Murdoch.
"I'm not saying Rupert Murdoch’s face didn't look better with a shaving cream pie in it," Mr. Oliver said during one episode. "You just don't want to find yourself with any misplaced sympathy for Rupert Murdoch."
The two then jokingly wondered on air whether anyone higher up at News International was listening. "Should this not have been stopped by now?" Mr. Oliver asked. "It doesn’t make sense!"
You can download the podcast on iTunes. After the jump, I've posted a video of John Oliver putting the News of the World scandal into proper perspective.
The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11/10c.
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WINNER Caption Challenge: Rupert Murdoch
Submitted by Robert Sickel.
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YOU DECIDE Caption Challenge: Rupert Murdoch
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Tworld News: Week of July 22, 2011
There aren't enough tweets in the world to cover all the wild news that went down this week. That's not true, there definitely, absolutely are, but these are the best.
In unfortunate political news, we were sadly reminded of our hesitance to elect a woman for President: About once every month they get these debilitating, attitude-effecting migraines. It's just too bad.
Does this mean that Buzz Lightyear will have to change his slogan and that store will just be called "Bed, Bath and Honestly That's It"?
Tags: Michele Bachmann, NASA, Rupert Murdoch, Soccer, Tim Pawlenty, Twitter, Tworld News
