Entertaining Politics: Satiric Television and Political Engagement Book

Preface to the Second Edition ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Part I Television and Politics Today

1 The Changing Face of Politics on Television 3

2 Rethinking Television's Relationship to Civic Engagement 21

Part II Entertaining Political Talk

3 From Insiders to Outsiders: The Transformation of Political Talk on Television 43

4 New Political Television: Questioning News Media's Regime of Truth 63

5 The Competing Senses of Political Insiders and Outsiders 93

6 Changing the Conversation: The Daily Show's Interviews and Interrogations 111

Part III Faking It (For Real) in News and Talk

7 Muckraking Through Fake Newsmagazines: Michael Moore's Satire TV 147

8 Fake News vs. Real News: The Case of The Daily Show and CNN 167

9 Faux Real and Faux Play: The Parody of Punditry in The Colbert Report 185

Part IV Audiences/Fans/Citizens

10 Viewer Engagement Beyond Information Acquisition: Celebrity, Talk, and Play 207

11 The Expanding and Contested Boundaries of New Political Television 235

Appendix: Methodology for Audience Research 253

Notes 257

Index 293

About the Author 313