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Annenberg Public Policy Center study on the Daily Show Audience

Annenberg Public Policy Center study on the Daily Show Audience

Very interesting study by the non-partisan Annenberg Public Policy Center (who also do factcheck.org, NOT factcheck.comas stated by VP Cheney during the debates).

Their conclusion: TDS (The Daily Show) audience tends to be *very* informed on political matters, much more so than viewers of news shows or other TV comedy programs.

But they (Annenberg) do not attribute TDS as the source of the political knowlege (i.e., TDS doesn't PROVIDE the information) ... informed viewers are drawn to the show, not the other way around.

Wonder how this fits into the Fox News "research" that shows that 85% of TDS audience in intoxicated while watching (see O'Reilly interview with Jon Stewart for details of this statistic).

posted by Charlie @ 11:40 AM