Sunday, April 1, 2007

Comedy Central's "Colbert Report"

Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report”


The Colbert Report satire regarding Wikipedia is addressing that reality of Wikipedia. The fact that Wiki-reality can be determined by people that agree on a perspective even when it is not accurate is the point of his satire. Colbert states “Together we can create a reality that we can all agree on-the reality we just agreed on”. He states that when people go against the majority that they are crazy. After all, if the majority of people agree on something, then it must be true. He states “Convince the majority of the people that some factoid is true and then it becomes true”. Now all a person has to do is edit Wikipedia or add information. In so many words, Wikiality is what people agree to. It isn’t necessary correct. For instance the statement “If I want to say that (George Washington did not have slaves} that is my right”. We all know that George Washington had slaves. However, with Wikipedia an individual can make changes based on their belief and if people agreed with it, it became Wikiality.
In my viewpoint the satire regarding Wikiality is probably done on this political show because of the implication regarding reality. When you look at politics today there is a lot of implication as to what is true and what we should believe.

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