ENG 2355 students, as we start reading Media & Culture, I think one important idea that we should have in our minds is the flux of meaning. Sounds impressive, yeah? Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert both get mentioned several times at the beginning of Chapter 1. Initially, the text refers to them as "fake-news anchors" (3). Are they? What's "fake" news? What about the presentation of "real" news might make it fake? Maybe check out some clips of one or both and see if you can discern fakery.
Is there a possibility that, in a postmodern world, the lines between fake and real have been blurred? Or perhaps they've shifted so subtly yet significantly that the "real" has become the new fake and the "fakers" are at least admitting what they're doing (while perhaps ACTUALLY informing as well)?
Think, to about the six bullet-points (mmmmm, bullet-points) at the end of Chapter 1 (34). Find one of those questions you're interested in and write up a response - not necessarily a definitve answer - for Thursday's class.
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