The motivation behind this subject comes from the author’s own interest in consuming different types of news and a curiosity about the quality of these news sources. The objective of this paper was to determine if satirical news shows could be equally informative as network news broadcasts. A comparative analysis was made between two of the most popular network news broadcasts and two popular satirical news shows: CNN, Fox News, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The analysis consisted of selecting two regular news programs from each of the news network broadcasts and examining these over the time frame of one week. For the satirical news shows all the episodes aired in one week were selected since they have a smaller amount of content. For the purpose of data collecting each headline from all of the selected programs was written down along with the summary of each story. The data was organized into tables which show the number and the type of topics covered. One main story from the week was chosen and analyzed in detail, to determine how each of the programs covered it. It was concluded that all the programs covered the facts accurately. The comparison analysis partially confirmed the hypothesis of this paper. Satirical news shows cannot be considered as informative as network news broadcasts, but they can be used as a complementary news source.