A Pew Research Study reveals that regular viewers of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are the most well-informed regarding world events. I’m not sure this is an example of cause-and-effect. If I use myself as an example–a dangerous thing, I know–then I suspect that much of the audience for those two shows consists of people who are already news/political junkies. In fact, a recent essay in The Economist on The Colbert Report (at least, I think it was in The Economist) pointed out that viewers of that show tend to be politically astute because it’s a requirement for understanding the show’s satire.
In other news from the Land of the Blindingly Obvious, viewers (or should I say minions) of Fox News are the least informed. Rupert Murdoch has turned millions of innocent Americans into squawking parrots mimicking the empty catchphrases of a collapsing ideology. Have pity on them.
