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Katz
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The “Truthiness” Behind American Politics: A Look at the Image of Stephen Colbert
as a Journalist Through the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Presidential Elections
By Michael Katz
IJPC Master’s thesis
Joe Saltzman
May 2013
Object Description
| Title | The "truthiness" behind American politics: a look at the image of Stephen Colbert as a journalist through the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 presidential elections |
| Author | Katz, Michael |
| Author email | katzml@usc.edu;kobeisbetterthanjordan@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Journalism (Print Journalism) |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2013-04-29 |
| Date submitted | 2013-04-29 |
| Date approved | 2013-04-29 |
| Restricted until | 2013-04-29 |
| Date published | 2013-04-29 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Saltzman, Joe |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Leonard, Jack Sereno, Ken |
| Abstract | The goal of this paper is to examine television icon Stephen Colbert as a journalist by looking at his work during the last four presidential elections. This paper briefly examines Colbert’s personal history and defines the “fake news genre.” It then looks at Stephen Colbert the person and Stephen Colbert the persona. It explores their differences and examines the persona as a three-fold caricature that makes a mockery of conservative television pundits and still maintains political influence in the real world. The paper then compares Colbert to other “fake journalists” and attempts to establish how exactly Colbert functions in the world of modern journalism. |
| Keyword | Colbert; journalism; IJPC; presidential election |
| Language | English |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Katz, Michael |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-KatzMichae-1627.pdf |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume7/etd-KatzMichae-1627.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | Katz 1 The “Truthiness” Behind American Politics: A Look at the Image of Stephen Colbert as a Journalist Through the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Presidential Elections By Michael Katz IJPC Master’s thesis Joe Saltzman May 2013 |
