Breaking News & We'll Throw in Some Laughs For you too

A quality of current society and the generational issues present with it are particularly characterized by the unique reaction to news-mockery, entertainment, memes. The vast filling of humor within national and global responses to crises may stem from the most convenient level of access to news we've had yet.

With the touch of buttons anyone ranging from any ages can learn what is happening in the world and with the advancement of technology more is to be discovered and reported. The combination of both an increase in coverage and increase in exposure yields for a lot more information to be passed through.

Though not all news is taken as a joke the influence of media steers the conversation into a largely jovial place. With television shows, talk shows, internet specialties, and many more versions of media that portray, assess, and many times mock current events, the info that is there turned into entertainment releases a new perspective in the minds of the people that watch it. With more and more of these bits of media popping up in regular life, everyone gets a taste of the influx of humor within news today.

The need for jokes to make news and information travel could be a reflection of the severity and proximity of our most devastating events but I wonder if joking about crisis alleviates, solves, or merely deflects problems. Should the comical culture of crisis be its own philosophical and ideological crisis within and of itself?