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Mar 2020
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Late Night Comedy vs. the Outrage Indust...

ANDREW HEATON
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Why do socially liberal comedians clean up in late night television, while social conservatives dominate talk radio? Dannagal Goldthwaite Young is the author of "Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States." She joins Heaton to discuss how liberals and conservatives process ambiguity, order, and politics on television.

Season 2, Ep. 38

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