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"The News" exists as a genre because it is entertaining, and this has been true literally since the inception of mass media with the printing press.

> Its not news, its entertainment. And when you can't disambiguate the two, its fucking dangerous.

I consider the Daily Show both, as do many others.

Yes VICE makes 100% of everything up. This is why even big news media outlets own a stake in it. Bush did 911 too.

BBC.com is FAR worse than Vice.