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Originally Posted by maximusveritas
The study SecretMethod referenced compared the Daily Show to Leno and Letterman, not to the news networks, so the result is not too surprising.
I agree that if you just watch the Daily Show, you're not going to become very informed. The show really acts as a comedic supplement to the normal, straight news that you might get on a CNN or NY Times. I doubt that many Daily Show viewers only get their news from that single source, because if they did that they probably wouldn't understand half the jokes.
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If you read my whole post you'll see that that's not all they compared Daily Show viewers to:
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“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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Anyways, part of the reason for this is that most of the time stations like CNN report on the campaigns and what they did each day as opposed to what they stand for. What they tested for was knowledge of issues - of what the candidates stood for - and that is where Daily Show viewers came out ahead. I have no doubt that if they tested on things regarding swift boat veterans and other non-issue things, that national news watchers would fare better.
powerclown, honestly, how many times have you watched the Daily Show? Comparing Jon Stewart to Bill Maher is really damaging the credibility of your argument. They're nothing alike.