The Rick Mercer Report is a show that can be considered fake news. It has clips of real news, adding a punch line on the end. It also runs down the week’s events in politics and then either points out where political parties went wrong, or makes fun of them in some other form of comedy. The show also creates fake sketches which air some times as commercials (like mad TV), or they recreate actual scenes, but add their own comical spin to make a serious situation/ event seem humorous.
It is important to have shows like these around to remind people that news, no matter how heavy it is, can be seen in a different light. Life can be comical, it just depends how you look at it.
Also like John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, how something is portrayed depends on the way we will see it for ourselves. Depending on the way we see it, what is real can be fake, what is fake can be real.
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