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Introduction: From Wiley-Blackwell's World Philosophy Headquarters in Malden |
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Segment 1 Headlines: Faux News Is Good News |
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1 Rallying Against the Conflictinator: Jon Stewart, Neil Postman, and Entertainment Bias |
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2 The Fake, the False, and the Fictional: The Daily Show as News Source |
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3 The Daily Show: An Ethos for the Fifth Estate |
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4 Seriously Funny: Mockery as a Political Weapon |
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5 Keeping It (Hyper) Real: Anchoring in the Age of Fake News |
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Segment 2 Live Report: Jon Stewart (Not Mill) as Philosopher, Sort of |
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6 Jon Stewart: The New and Improved Public Intellectual |
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7 Stewart and Socrates: Speaking Truth to Power |
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8 Jon the Cynic: Dog Philosophy 101 |
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9 "Jews! Camera 3": How Jon Stewart Echoes Martin Buber |
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Segment 3 Field Report: Politics and Critical Thinking |
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10 More Bullshit: Political Spin and the PR-ization of Media |
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11 The Senior Black Correspondent: Saying What Needs to Be Said |
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12 The Daily Show's Expose of Political Rhetoric |
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13 The Daily Show Way: Critical Thinking, Civic Discourse, and Postmodern Consciousness |
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Segment 4 Interview: Religion and Culture |
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14 GOP Almighty: When God Tells Me (and My Opponents) to Run for President |
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15 Profaning the Sacred: The Challenge of Religious Diversity in "This Week in God" |
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16 Jon Stewart and the Fictional War on Christmas |
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231 | (16) |
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17 Evolution, Schmevolution: Jon Stewart and the Culture Wars |
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Segment 5 Your Moment of Zen: Beyond The Daily Show |
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18 America (The Book): Textbook Parody and Democratic Theory |
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267 | (14) |
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19 A Tea Party for Me the People: The Living Revolution Meets the Originalists |
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20 Neologization a la Stewart and Colbert |
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21 Irrationality and "Gut" Reasoning: Two Kinds of Truthiness |
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22 Thank God It's Stephen Colbert! The Rally to Restore Irony on The Colbert Report |
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Senior Philosophical Correspondents |
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Index |
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