A look into how NBC and SNL are dealing with terrorism.

3. A. PROGRAMING
The programing is NBCs way of
showing the people they know about what
is happening in the world and it shows how
they deal with it through what they put on
the air. This can turn out controversial
especially in one show we will talk about in
the first part of the presentation
B. NEWS
The news doesn’t come as a
surprise, however we’re not talking about
reporting stories on NBC nightly news, but
more on how the news was delivered to
the public and how much of that story was
actually credible.

4. LIVE FROM NEW YORK ITS ANOTHER
CONTRAVERSIAL SKIT!
When it comes to terrorism and NBC, they stick to what they know, they throw it to SNL.
Unfortunately, they may have bit off more than they could chew when dealing with ISIS. SNL
decided to air this skit which audiences found pretty distasteful. (click play in the box)

6. OVERVIEW OF ARTICLE
The articles over all message was about how NBC using the skit actually did more
than any bomb has done so far. It goes over things such as
. Society's view on terrorism
. NBC’s message
.Effects of NBC’s decision
.How parody helps

7. SOCIETY'S VIEW ON TERRORISM
A large part of NBC’s decision to keep and air the skit has to do with terror at home. It has to
do with being aware of the situation around you. The article talks about:
. How there were 19 deaths in America last year that dealt with terrorism
. Last year over 1,000 innocent lives were taken in drone strikes but we don’t think about them
. How the Boston bombing hurt hundreds of people and some lost their lives
The author is making a point that all this is happening and NBC along with other news stations
haven't done much more than report it

8. WAR ON WHAT?
H. A. Goodman states in his article that this is no longer a war on terrorists, but a war on
Ideology. He states that:

9. YOU CANT SHOOT IDEOLOGY
The article goes on to state that no, you cant
shoot ideology but SNL and NBC come close.
They use a different kid of weapon as Goodman
goes on to say.

10. THE NEW AMERICAN ARMY.
This article goes on to tell us that the way we fight terrorism close to home might be changing.
NBC can be viewed as a sort of weapons expert creating a super army, but it might not look
the way you expect. When it comes to fighting the war at home, we may still be heavily relying
on men and woman
-Such as this: -But also on men and woman such as this

11. NBC LAUGHING AT THE ENEMY
NBC’s new super army has found a way to fight terror with the greatest weapon of all,
laughter. NBC got SNL to create a skit that would make ISIS a joke. That’s right, NBC is
dealing with Terrorism the same way you would defeat your middle school bully. By making
them look like such a joke that eventually the thought of having anything to do with them
would seem embarrassing. Just know that if you mess with america, these are the guys that
your going to have to answer to.
(SNL Comedy Skit Writers)

12. KILL THEM WITH LAUGHTER

13. LOOKING FOR AN IDENTITY? JOIN ISIS, THE
LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD
NBC gave power to SNL to do as they please to fight ISIS and they did what they do best,
went into a sort of high school mentality. NBC’s approach was to use SNL to basically make
ISIS look like the weird kid in school who was in marching band and thought alians were real.
They made it so that nobody would want to be a part of it.
NBC ISIS

14. LOOKING FOR AN IDENTITY? JOIN ISIS, THE
LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD
Before NBC could take down ISIS, they had to see what their plan was. Goodman says that their
main plan was to recruit people who were looking for a since of identity then get them to join ISIS to
find it.

15. NOT KILLED, DILUTED

16. DILUTIED METAPHOR:
An easy way to look at it is like this:
- It’s a warm summer day and your thirsty so your looking for something to drink, you don’t
know what you want, you’re just thirsty. you see a glass of coke that looks cold and refreshing
so you decide to drink some. Before you do, you see that a lot of ice has melted in the cup
and you know that its going to taste flat, watered down and gross, suddenly it seems a lot
more unappealing.
- In this scenario you're the person looking for the drink (Your sense of identity) the coke is
ISIS which because you're so thirsty looks pretty good. Now think of NBC and SNL as the ice,
they watered it down, they made it taste bad so you don’t want it anymore.

17. BUILDING UP TERRORISM
This skit brought up a lot of backlash from viewers as you can see in the news report by
“ABC”

18. BUILDING UP TERRORISM
Goodman says that if you don’t understand that SNL was doing something good here then you
don’t understand comedy and you can “go back to watching Bill Oriley claim he's in a war
zone”
- Goodman is talking about news reporters such as Bill oriley who claim they were
in combat to show the glamorous side of being near combat. By doing this it seems they are
only building up terrorism unlike SNL who is trying to make it a laughing stock. Sticking with
NBC, the most recent example would be Brian Williams

19. NBC AND BRAIN WILLIAMS
In order to understand what SNL is doing, we can look at Brian Williams who did the opposite.
Williams Lied about being close to battle so that he could look like a hero. Goodman would
argue this is the opposite of what we need to be doing. We need to be laughing at terror
groups, not making them look so dangerous but instead tearing them down and make them
look less appealing. Killing their ideology.

20. CONCLUSION
NBC has always let SNL deal with terrorism in their own way and they always do. Sometimes
its controversial than others Such as this and other ISIS skits. On the surface it looks as
though NBC let SNL openly mock ISIS and American followers but below that we see they
were making a statement. They were showing us all how to deal with terrorism while they
dealt with it themselves. Other times its more unified such as Lorne Michaels (SNL Creator)
along side NYC Mayor and Singer Paul Simon after the 9/11 attacks.

21. CONCLUSION
Goodman closes his article with the following statement:

22. WORK CITED
GOODMAN, H.A. “'SNL's' Skit Did More to Defeat ISIS Than Any Bombing Campaign.
Satire Destroys Extremist Ideology.” HUFFINGTON POST MEDIA. 5/02/2015
ABC NEWS “'SNL' Creates Controversy With ISIS Sketch” Video 3/1/15
CBS this morning “NBC anchor Brian Williams' apology fails to silence critics” video. 2/6/15
SNL “Father Daughter Ad - Saturday Night Live“ Video 3/1/15