{"id":13183,"date":"2015-05-14T11:06:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T21:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13183"},"modified":"2015-05-14T11:06:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T21:06:29","slug":"tangent-nyt-op-ed-foreigners-are-attacking-american-tv-within-us-tv-programs-contrast-with-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13183","title":{"rendered":"Tangent: NYT Op-Ed: Foreigners Are Attacking … American TV, within US TV programs. Contrast with Japan."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog.\u00a0 In my previous blog entry<\/a>, I mentioned the disenfranchisement of foreigners from Japanese media, and my upcoming book (out in November) will discuss further the effects of that in terms of tolerance of difference and counteracting public defamation.\u00a0 As a Debito.org Tangent, let’s contrast this with the degree of access that foreigners in America have to influence the domestic narrative and talking points.\u00a0 I don’t know how unusual this is on a country-to-country scale (Debito.org Readers are welcome to mention the foreign anchors\/pundits holding court outside the US and Japan), but given the influence that American media has worldwide, this is not a small matter.\u00a0 The NYT does a survey below.\u00a0 Dr. ARUDOU, Debito<\/p>\n

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Foreigners Are Attacking … American TV!<\/strong>
\n By VIKAS BAJAJ New York Times MARCH 30, 2015<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/31\/opinion\/foreigners-are-attacking-american-tv.html<\/a><\/p>\n

American late-night television shows have probably never had so many anchors with foreign accents as they will have soon. Trevor Noah, a South African comedian, will become at least the third non-American native to host a popular TV comedy show later this year when he takes over \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d from Jon Stewart. He will join two Britons, John Oliver of HBO\u2019s \u201cLast Week Tonight\u201d and James Corden, who recently started hosting \u201cThe Late Late Show\u201d on CBS.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Noah is an unconventional choice to host a show on American television, which has had plenty of British actors and comedians over the years. He was born to a black Xhosa mother and a white Swiss father and is from a country where mixed race unions are still uncommon. And, perhaps most important, many Americans have never heard or seen him perform.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But Mr. Noah\u2019s foreignness might be just what the \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d and American television broadly need. It is hard to remember now, but when Mr. Stewart took over the show and later spun off \u201cThe Colbert Report,\u201d fake news was not a big part of our comedy diet. Yes, there was the Weekend Update segment on \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d but it came on just once a week and did not always deliver the goods.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Maybe what we really need now is to have foreigners apply their brand of satire to the United States \u2014 its politics, culture and race relations \u2014 to tell us something about ourselves that our homegrown comedians are not capturing. And they can perhaps also enlighten us about what\u2019s funny and tragic in the rest of the world as Mr. Oliver has done ably on his show. Aside from a few jokes about Europe, most late-night shows rarely dwell on international subjects.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Still, Mr. Noah\u2019s appointment has disappointed some fans of \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d who had hoped that Comedy Central would pick a woman like Samantha Bee, who is leaving the show to start her own satirical program on TBS. It is disappointing that none of the several late-night shows on the air now are hosted by a woman. Perhaps, Ms. Bee will so successfully shatter that glass ceiling that the executives at other networks will seek out more women to be hosts.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There will probably also be criticism from some quarters that Mr. Noah, Mr. Oliver and Mr. Corden represent a foreign invasion of television that is depriving hard-working American comedians of important jobs. Just last week, a columnist for Deadline.com suggested that some deserving white actors were not getting roles on new TV shows because the industry was designating many more characters as reserved for nonwhite actors.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I for one am looking forward to Mr. Noah\u2019s stint in the anchor chair. I found his three appearances on \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d to be funny in a unique way \u2014 watch him explain why it was bad for the United States to try to lure top chess players away from other countries. And I laughed at clips of his standup act in which he mimics the odd speaking style of President Jacob Zuma of South Africa. I hope he is just as unsparing to our politicians.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my previous blog entry, I mentioned the disenfranchisement of foreigners from Japanese media, and my upcoming book (out in November) will discuss further the effects of that in terms of tolerance of difference and counteracting public defamation. As a Debito.org Tangent, let’s contrast this with the degree of access that foreigners in America have to influence the domestic narrative and talking points. I don’t know how unusual this is on a country-to-country scale (Debito.org Readers are welcome to mention the foreign anchors\/pundits holding court outside the US and Japan), but given the influence that American media has worldwide, this is not a small matter. The NYT does a survey:<\/p>\n

NYT: American late-night television shows have probably never had so many anchors with foreign accents as they will have soon. Trevor Noah, a South African comedian, will become at least the third non-American native to host a popular TV comedy show later this year when he takes over \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d from Jon Stewart. He will join two Britons, John Oliver of HBO\u2019s \u201cLast Week Tonight\u201d and James Corden, who recently started hosting \u201cThe Late Late Show\u201d on CBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,23,12,13,60,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-humor","category-immigration-assimilation","category-media","category-nj-voices-ignored","category-tangents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}