Bluring the line Between Entertainment and Politics

An intervention into contemporary news that blurs the line between entertainment and Politics, in my opinion, is The Colbert Report. This may be entirely different from many other points of views. The purpose of his show, obviously, is to take serious political issues and poke fun at the absurdity of the issue itself, how the issue is being covered itself, and the way in which people react or respond to these issues. Here is the dilemma, and and the way in which the line is blurred instead of treaded. By poking fun at a serious issue, an issue that can truly have an impact on a population or organization of some sort, it lightens the blow, and allows for the audience to be able to look at these issues and laugh. But the problem is when serious issues are constantly being mocked, and people actually turn to these shows more than they would turn to the news channels themselves. As a result, it no longer becomes an issue that can be laughed at, but the issue itself becomes a joke, and hence, the line is blurred, where political issues become a form of entertainment, instead of the serious issues that they really are.