Blogger Clogger's Bloggelation of Smaug's Nog Blog

     How's that for a title?!

     Happy Feast Day Christians and to those of you from Albania, Mauritania or Panama, happy Independence Day. That is, of course, provided you're actually reading this on November 28^th, which is, of course, provided any of you are reading this at all.

     For my last blog entry I've decided to pay tribute to the upcoming release of the movie The Desolation of Smaug as well as egg nog for a more festive feel. Normally, I wouldn't get all X-Mas before December but this being the last blog required certain considerations. So on that note, if you're one of the many looking forward to this movie then enjoy everything it will offer and if you're the type to slug back rum mixed with unsavoury “liquids” then enjoy the egg nog.

Of Cynics and Optimists

     More importantly, this blog is meant to focus on whether the general idea among the assembled blogs is that satirical news media is more, less or equally reliable as standard news media. If I've learned anything from your previous blogs, it's that there's a giant consensus that tea leaves could give us more accurate news reporting then the modern news media.

Clowns invading China at 10

(healing.about.com)

     This being the case, I think satirical news media has a pretty giant head start. For my own personal opinion though, they're equally reliable.

     One assessment from Karandeep Dhillon's first post, “...it could be that the media is portraying these facts to us in a manner which allows them to manipulate us into their way of thinking.”, among many from others, states this reliability of the current news media.

     In contrast, many of you enjoy the light-hearted nature of what satirical media brings to the table. Haley Bourque mentioned, “this is a smart way of informing societies of the events going on world wide, while still entertaining them in a positive way”. Throughout her blog she gives many details of how much she supports culture jamming and that she agrees with the notion that satirical news media is a form of culture jamming. A greatly effective one at that.

The Grand Conspiracy

     Is this devotion some people have to satirical media an illusive trick though?

Trustworthy... A little too trustworthy

(entertainmentrealm.com)

     Matthew Famele lends credence to my point by stating, “Even though these shows use humour to get the message across, they allow a truthful analysis and criticism of what the media portrays because they are less formal and allow the truth to be exposed”. While not poorly constructed or even wrong I find a great amount of trust being placed on the satirical media with just as little strong research proven to state that the satirical media is giving us the stated truth. While Matthew likely doesn't make a habit of blind acceptance, many do and this can easily be seen as a problem. Is mass media using this blind acceptance as a means to feed us one view point disguised as two or possibly to perpetuate the myth that anything but the news is fallacy or comedy?

The End of All Things

     So what does this mean for the public and its many spheres? I honestly believe that it means nothing. Humanity as an entity can't seem to hold onto things long enough for them to make a difference. Little things in the grand scope do scrawl their name into eternity but the learning curve for the lessons life teaches is always too steep. Only the individual seems to hold onto things. This beautiful eternity we course through is an Etch-a-sketch with new and wonderful art to keep things fresh.

(www.telegraph.co.uk)

     While we do tend to witness the grotesque before us, we also see the beauty and when the next morning comes everything gets shaken up once again. 


Referenced Blogs
- http://jattinc.wordpress.com/2013/09/
- http://hb123na.wordpress.com/
- http://matthewfamele.wordpress.com/