The first part of Entertaining Politics focuses on the blurred line between news and entertainment media. In the assigned blog post for this week, we were asked to find an example of an intervention into contemporary news and discuss how it treads or blurs the line between entertainment and politics. For an extra credit post, I also want to take a look at an actual news story (from Global News, a Canadian news network) and talk about how it also treads/blurs the line between entertainment and politics.
We have all seen these sort of "fluff" stories that are symptomatic of the 24 hour news cycle; This is just one example. In this video, the line between entertainment and politics is blurred not only by the fact that the news story itself is absurd and ridiculous, but also because it aired on a regular segment that deals explicitly with entertainment news.
The fact that most news organizations have entertainment news coverage demonstrates that the line between entertainment and news is blurred, especially when entertainment news reports shift away from movie reviews and television ratings. The journalist in this video is essentially a slapstick clown, not a news reporter.
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