"How did SNL become the most important force in America, apparently more likely to unseat Trump than the media tasked with covering him or the government charged with challenging him? To understand this, we must revisit the blog industrial complex. SNL is the perfect show for bloggers, providing a cornucopia of pre-made content that needs little writing to supplant it...
there exists an unctuous relationship between the media (traditional, print/digital hybrid, start-up) and late-night media (satire, fake news). Media organizations report the news. SNL makes fun of the news. Media organizations report on SNLmaking fun of the news they just reported. This adds to the glut of meaningless internet content while affording us little distance from what we are consuming...
The people whose jobs it is to convey this type of low-stakes humor are not concerned with effecting change, and even less with cultivating an audience outside of their cosseted, exclusive sphere. Although they may address politics, they’re free from the responsibility that comes with being involved in politics."
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