Informative and Entertaining

The night after I watched the ABC News at 6:30 (April 30, 2009) I also watched the very entertaining Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I was not surprised to see that they both covered the two major stories of the day, those being the Swine Flu and President Obama’s first 100 days in the presidency. Setting-wise, the Daily Show does a good job at replicating what it looks like on a news station, except in the Daily Show there is actually an audience.

Of course, there is an important difference between the shows, Daily Show is entertainment. You can see that everything said is a joke. The smaller issues also were not the same, considering that the Daily Show is meant as entertainment while the news should be just news. A show that is meant to entertain would not discuss such boring topics as traffic, or small town employment, and nobody wants to hear about the falling GDP on Comedy Central. Also a major difference was that Hugh Jackman, or Wolverine, was a guest on the show.

It is important to note however that the Daily Show really isn’t badat providing information. It isn’t the news, but if you do watch it you will learn somewhat of what is going on, more than you would if you didn’t watch the news. Also, the jokes are pretty funny and he can be quite critical of the media.