| If you're paying attention to the news lately, it might | | | | "Real Time With Bill Maher" replaced the network |
| be a little bit of a three ring circus experience. It | | | | show "Politically Incorrect," which ran into trouble |
| seems like the cable news is able to take any issue, | | | | after some comments made around September 11, |
| whether it's Tiger Woods cheating or the latest | | | | which were not insensitive, were nonetheless taken |
| weather or natural disaster catastrophe, and stretch | | | | too seriously by an outraged public. Today, Maher is |
| it out far beyond a single news cycle. You might feel | | | | still opinionated, only his setting is more based on |
| as though you are learning too much and too little at | | | | equal time regardless of views. |
| the same time whether the subject at hand happens | | | | But there's definitely more comedic looks at the |
| to be Obama's latest decision or the current | | | | current state of political affairs on satellite TV, and |
| happenings in the House and Senate. And in a time | | | | they are still informing their audience of what's |
| when people are a bit perturbed about the future of | | | | actually happening in the world. For a more political |
| jobs and the country in general, it seems a little bit | | | | slant that covers the most egregious missteps that |
| pointless to be getting all worked up about some | | | | everyone from personalities to politicians have taken |
| celebrity gossip that somehow manages to sneak | | | | in the past 24 hours, there are the twin titans of |
| into every single satellite TV news network from | | | | Comedy Central, "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert |
| time to time. | | | | Report." Sometimes, it might look as though Glen |
| If you're watching the news, you have a couple of | | | | Beck is doing an impersonation of Colbert and not |
| different choices at this point in time. You can either | | | | the other way around. And of course, Jon Stewart |
| get really upset or worried about the condition of | | | | still delights satellite TV audiences around the country |
| news reporting, you can decide to read newspapers | | | | with his increasingly irritated look at what's actually |
| and get information through a different means, or | | | | going on in the political arena. |
| you can find a way to laugh at the condition of the | | | | However, perhaps you prefer a less partisan |
| news, not the world, while still managing to get your | | | | approach to looking at how ridiculous the current |
| information. For a whole lot of people, it seems that | | | | media circus is. For that, there's Current, and its |
| that latter option is the absolute best lately, and | | | | weekly digest round-up of everything happening in |
| more and more shows are making it easy to laugh | | | | the media, "InfoMania." Because Current doesn't just |
| not just at the way the news reports on satellite | | | | look at television but also checks out the online media |
| TV, but also at the fact that there are so many 24 | | | | when doing their weekly report, it feels a lot more |
| hour news sources that don't quite seem to be | | | | like a humorous way of bringing the entire zany world |
| saying anything at all. | | | | of the news media right to you each week. And |
| For a show that has a little bit of comedy but seems | | | | unlike so many other satellite TV shows, this one |
| more focused on providing political analysis, look no | | | | manages to report on the hilarity of current events |
| further than HBO, where Bill Maher continues on with | | | | without getting overly emotional or upset in the |
| his program, now on the air for close to a decade. | | | | course of its seasons. |
