I don't think many watch it for more than what it really is, a comedy show about the news, a glorified Weekend Update. I've seen a few studies that show the Daily Show viewers are among the most well informed, so I doubt many find the Daily Show their primary source of news. They watch to laugh about the news, not learn.
Very much disagree. Studies have shown that young people go to that show to get their political news. It's also far more agenda driven than any fox broadcast. Let's face it. Young people don't care about politics anyway. It's not surprising they aren't turning to the economist or the Washington post
No they don't. They show they get their news mostly from online and news channel sources, not a nightly comedy show. Here's one study. http://newsdesk.umd.edu/engaged/release.cfm?ArticleID=2750
Yep, which is unsurprising for youth, but, when they do get it, they mostly get it online and from news shows.
A couple of things I immediately noticed: "The Daily Show not only assumes, but even requires, previous and significant knowledge of the news on the part of viewers if they want to get the joke." "The survey also suggests Daily Show viewers are highly informed, an indication that The Daily Show is not their lone source of news. Regular viewers of The Daily Show and the Colbert Report were most likely to score in the highest percentile on knowledge of current affairs."
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I get all of my political news from a guy that sends it to me in the mail in a brown envelope, hand written on 8.5x11 college rule paper. It is post marked from some place in Montana.
I haven't watched in quite awhile, but I never got the sense the jokes were very high-minded. Generally a clip was played and Stewart made some witty commentary. I wonder what percentage of jokes I'd struggle to grasp if I awoke from a five year coma to find the Daily Show on in my hospital room.
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Heard a fun story from a person running for office up here in my corner of northeast TN. Apparently he had some Tea Party folks approach him at a function and asked him with 100% seriousness what he was going to do about the 20,000 Russian troops who were massed between Asheville & Gatlinburg and who were under the control of Homeland Security. Perhaps this explains a lot about traffic in Pigeon Forge.
