Al Franken and Lies

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This paper looks at one of Al Franken's (the writer and performer of the popular television show Saturday Night Live) most popular works, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. " First, the paper discusses several types of media bias that Franken reveals. Then, it looks at some of arguments that Franken makes about mainstream media coverage, as well as his criticisms of conservative media pundits and media sources. All the while, the paper presents the writer's opinion as to Franken's validity.

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"Al Franken and Lies Going from writer and performer on the ever-popular television show, Saturday Night Live, Al Franken has become a political pundit for American liberals and a successful writer of critical commentary books that are both humorous and politically sound. The first biases that Franken notes are those that "stem from something called `the profit motive'" (Franken 1). "

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