Irony and Outrage explores the aesthetics, underlying logics, and histories of two seemingly distinct genres: liberal political satire and conservative talk radio. While the audiences for conservative outrage and liberal satire come from opposing political ideologies, they both …
The counterculture versus the hate clubs of the air -- Political and technological changes that created Jon Stewart and Bill O'reilly -- Outrage and satire as responses and antidotes -- The psychology of satire -- Who gets the joke? -- The psychology of the left and the right --…
For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opinion talk radio from liberals. This book turns that question on its head to argue that opinion talk is the political satire of the r…
