Center for Strategic Communication

Comedic News from a Real War

by Kelly McDonald The DailyShow with Jon Stewart, a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning satirical news program, madeheadlines again this past week when correspondent Rob Riggle reported frominside Iraq. The show’s reach is large, with nearly one and ahalf million...

Travel as Rhetoric

By Aaron Hess As the 2008 elections loom and fragmentation persists between Congress and the Executive Branch, US officials have been traveling abroad to visit sensitive areas plagued with international conflict. Received with mixed reactions, these US delegations...