ATG Book of the Week: The Stewart/Colbert Effect

ATG Book of the Week of May 16:
The Stewart/Colbert Effect: Essays on the Real Impacts of Fake News

Edited by Amarnath Amarasingam. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.9780786458868. 198 pages.

With all the discussion in Against the Grain, at the Charleston Conference and at other conferences regarding newspapers and the traditional media, this collection of essays caught my attention. It takes on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report to explore the issues of popularity, entertainment news, the role of satire, and the declining level of trust in traditional sources of media.