{"id":1549,"date":"2007-04-16T19:22:46","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T19:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2007-04-16T19:22:46","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T19:22:46","slug":"in_the_know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"In The Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Pew Research Study reveals that regular viewers of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are the most well-informed regarding world events<\/a>. 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<\/i> on The Colbert Report (at least, I think it was in The Economist<\/i>) pointed out that viewers of that show tend to be politically astute because it’s a requirement for understanding the show’s satire. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-oZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}