Since my last blog was written in a state of mental delirium, i’ll just quote news for a while until I feel better
Survey reveals late-night TV viewers better informed
By Bryan Long
CNN
Wednesday, September 29, 2004 Posted: 6:39 AM EDT (1039 GMT)
Viewers of Stewart, Letterman and Leno scored better on a quiz of political knowledge than people who do not watch late-night comedy.
(CNN) — So, three guys are watching TV.One turns on Jay Leno. One tunes into David Letterman. And the other watches Jon Stewart.
Who’s better informed politically?
In a recent survey, viewers of Stewart’s “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central tested better than Letterman and Leno viewers on a six-question politics quiz.
Viewers of all three shows know more about the background of presidential candidates and their positions on issues than people who don’t watch late-night TV.
On top of that, “Daily Show” viewers know more about election issues than people who regularly read newspapers or watch television news, according to the National Annenberg Election Survey. (Pop quiz)
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, a senior research analyst at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, said “Daily Show” viewers came out on top “even when education, party identification, following politics, watching cable news, receiving campaign information online, age and gender are taken into consideration.”
The quiz was given to 19,013 adults between July 15 and September 19.
The quiz included these questions:
“Who favors allowing workers to invest some of their Social Security contributions in the stock market?” Answer: Bush.
“Who urges Congress to extend the federal law banning assault weapons?” Answer: Kerry.
While viewers of NBC’s “The Tonight Show” and CBS’ “The Late Show” scored better than the general public, Stewart’s fans came out on top.
Forty-nine percent of Leno and Letterman viewers got a perfect score on the quiz.
But 60 percent of “Daily Show” viewers answered all six questions correctly.
Just 42 percent of those who read a newspaper four days a week aced the test. Only 40 percent of those who watch network news four days a week got every answer right.
Comedy Central was waiting for news like this. On September 17, Stewart appeared on Bill O’Reilly’s “The O’Reilly Factor” only to be told his viewers are “stoned slackers” and “dopey kids.”
“You know what’s really frightening?” O’Reilly asked Stewart. “You actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary, but it’s true.”
Comedy Central used its viewers’ test scores Tuesday to strike back at Fox News Channel and O’Reilly’s viewers.
It also trotted out stats from Nelson Media Research to show that Stewart’s viewers are not only smart, but more educated than O’Reilly’s.
“Daily Show” viewers are 78 percent more likely than the average adult to have four or more years of college education, while O’Reilly’s audience is only 24 percent more likely to have that much schooling.
Plus, the network noted, “Daily Show” viewers are 26 percent more likely to have a household income more than $100,000, while O’Reilly’s audience is only 11 percent more likely to make that much money.
So the guy watching Stewart may not only be smart, but may also be rich.
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This stuff had me rollin’…
“You know what’s really frightening?” O’Reilly said. “You actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary, but it’s true. You’ve got stoned slackers watching your dopey show every night and they can vote.”"…(does he have any remote clue on who..I meant what watches his show?)
“Relax, said Fox News Channel spokesman Rob Zimmerman. “Comedy Central must have lost their sense of humor,” Zimmerman said. “Without Jon Stewart, Comedy Central would turn into the Great American Country Channel.”
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Who do they even still air bill O’Reillys show? All that monkey is doing is complaining and being overall dumb.
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I was checking out your “Search Site Vistitor” and clicked on one of the http://www.tanin.com‘s you had down there and was laughing my butt off at the 1st result.
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That’s a little hidden message on this site that shows up on search sites. =)
And a note on FOX, I got bored last night and wrote a little something at the hotel. It’s one of those rhymes that is sung with two lines per breath so it’s ok if the rhyme structure doesn’t always makes sense when read…
I first heard of Fox News in an internet chatroom
where the pompus anchor Bill was called a baboon
curious as I was I threw a glance at its site
and sickend at its sight I lost my appetite
thinking it was a sick joke that this even existed
a republican TV channel where liberals were depicted
as evildoers and free thinkers plainly restricted
to express their views and their opinions evicted
But with Bush as I predicted, his ass; they licked it
“What the fuck?” I thought. “Now, this can’t be right!”
“Maybe it’s a joke site. They can’t mean what they write!”
I was wrong with that thought and it was actually worst
a bias tv channel needing more than a nurse
where’s Kevorkian when you need ‘em with a needle in hand
to inject some sense into FOX so they understand
they’ve turned the counrty into what they fear worst
media propaganda fed to messes it hurts
to see a proud people that have fallen so deep
robbed of reality with only illusions to keep
wake up America. you’re beeing fucked in the ass
by people like O’Reilly that are abusing the past
9/11 was disastrous and the world was in mourning
but your brainwashing started the very next morning
the land of the free and the home of the brave?
or land of a greedy few and the home of the slaves?
it’s up to you to decide; better get out there and vote
at the elections in november and i’ll end with this note
don’t ever let corporate media decide what you think
or in the pits of slavery forever you’ll sink
Laters,
T
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Hahaha! Brilliant =D!