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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
But that's just it. It ISN'T one of the best sources of election information. It's not even close. It's a horrible source.
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As I mentioned in a later post, it actually IS. There was a study done on it - a study done by such a reputable source, in fact, that I spent an entire political science class discussing this. Taking into account education, and various other demographics, the Daily Show viewers were more informed about the presidential election than viewers of any other show.
And you're right - it's a horrible source of info - which is what makes this so sad.
edit: got it - University of Pennsylvania National Annenberg Election Survey....
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The Annenberg survey found that people who watch The Daily Show are more interested in the presidential campaign, more educated, younger, and more liberal than the average American or than Leno or Letterman viewers. “However, these factors do not explain the difference in levels of campaign knowledge between people who watch The Daily Show and people who do not,” Young pointed out. “In fact, Daily Show viewers have higher campaign knowledge than national news viewers and newspaper readers -- even when education, party identification, following politics, watching cable news, receiving campaign information online, age, and gender are taken into consideration.”
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Young people who watched The Daily Show scored 48% correct on the campaign knowledge test while young people who did not watch any late-night comedy scored 39% correct. Meanwhile, young people who watched four of more days of network news scored 40% correct, equally frequent cable news viewers 48% correct and newspaper readers 46% correct.
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