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Scholars Can't Get Enough Colbert

Fake news inspires wealth of academic writing, courses

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 10, 2012 5:07 PM CDT

(Newser) – Stephen Colbert is good for more than just a few laughs; in fact, some scholars wonder if he's "America's Socrates." As a result, the Colbert Report has sparked its own mini-discipline in academia, the Washington Post reports. (Writer Paul Farhi pokes...   Read full story »

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