The Daily Show/The Colbert Report

http://www.thedailyshow.com/

http://www.colbertnation.com/home

Blow these shows off if you want as being for (as Bill O'Reilly put it) "stoned slackers," but for nearly a decade now, the people behind these shows have gone above and beyond being mere political satire. They have been instrumental in exposing some of the ludicrous actions of the major news networks, the lies of the Bush Administration, the failures of Congress, and have had some of the best guests with some of the most interesting debates I've ever seen on national television. I won't tag this is as a news posting, but what these shows really are are infotainment, which can be one of the most powerful tools in the spread of information. They can take news segments from the day or the week and spit it back at you as funny and hard-hitting as Dr. Strangelove. Of course, always take these shows with a grain of salt. They're not news, so they're certainly biased. They are both left leaning in their philosophies, but they happened to also be owned by Viacom (one of the big media corporations).

The main reason I post the links to their websites is that you can watch nearly every single thing they've ever aired--updated daily--and some things that weren't aired including longer, unedited interviews and extra segments.