Does+comedy+news+enhance+political+and+environmental+literacy?

=Does comedy news enhance political and environmental literacy?=

__**examples of comedy news**__ [|The Colbert Report]

[|The Yes Men] [|Wikipedia: The Yes Men]

[|The Daily Show with Jon Stewart]

[|Huffington Post: Jon Stewart on Occupy Wall Street]

[|The Onion]

__**yes**__ September 12, 2010. //NY Magazine//. "[|America is a Joke]"

your choice (hint: Fox News is well known for arguing that Stewart, Colbert, et. al is "just a joke")
 * __no__**

a "no" option: Blog for Reason Magazine, The [|"Jon Stewart Game:" Everyone Loses, Except Him]

__**more**__ Ad Busters does a lot of interesting media parody work, and has a magazine: http://www.adbusters.org/

YouTube: [|How Comedy and Satire Can Help Reform the Media] (National Conference for Media Reform 2011)

September 20, 2010. //Politico. "//[|Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's very political 'joke]'"

2010. //Cultural Anthropology//. Dominic Boyer and Alexei Yurchak. "American Stiob: Or, What Late-Socialists Aesthetics of Parody Reveal about Contemporary Political Culture in the West." Overview and related media: http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/322

March 2007. //Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies.// Maria Hynes, Scott Sharpe & Bob Fagan //"//Laughing with the Yes Men: The Politics of Affirmation."