that is exactly how I feel about Fox News.

Repeat?

Repeat.

And still full of crap. Fox is the most lie-filled craphole on TV and the "average" American (ie moron) gobbles it up like Lindsay Lohan gobbles up snatch.

Well I get my news from The Onion!

/suck on that

So what if I like Weekend Update.

"If you watch television news, you will know less about the world than if you just drink gin straight out of the bottle."
--Garrison Keillor

FTA: The bad news is, [mock news shows] leave viewers less politically informed than those who watch real news, a new study suggests.

The endumbination of the U.S. continues. I've gotten pretty jaded...I'm not sure anything can stop this free-fall. Hopefully our inevitable humbling at the hands of history and the rest of the world looks more like Britain's and less like Rome's.

/Yes, I realize it's a Canadian web site.

You need to be informed about issues and candidates to get the jokes.

I get my news from AN onion.

/Fake news is fun, but real news comes from fark.com

From TFA:

Research has shown that between 48 and 60 per cent of young adults watched fake news shows to get information about the 2004 American presidential campaign.

Research also shows that between 48 and 60 percent of Canadians get their news from 4 years in the past.

To tell the truth, I am beginning to think we are all doomed to become subjects of a hybrid state that acts as a proxy for a murky religionist establishment. In the future, we will all have to cleave to bizarre rules derived from a purblind interpretation of the Bible

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Any news outlet that does not present my preferred spin on things is not a reliable source for information.

DistendedPendulusFrenulum: To tell the truth, I am beginning to think we are all doomed to become subjects of a hybrid state that acts as a proxy for a murky religionist establishment. In the future, we will all have to cleave to bizarre rules derived from a purblind interpretation of the Bible

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We already have that.

Sadly, some people actually take Stephen Colbert seriously.

If your only news source is CNN, MSNBC, or Fox you'll only have half the story. Read or watch news reports from both sides of the spectrum and decide for yourself.

DistendedPendulusFrenulum: To tell the truth, I am beginning to think we are all doomed to become subjects of a hybrid state that acts as a proxy for a murky religionist establishment. In the future, we will all have to cleave to bizarre rules derived from a purblind interpretation of the Bible

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BS!

The Daily Show has more REAL political news then FOX, NBC, CBS and ABC all together.

//and don't get me started on the Spanish news univison, azteca and telemundo..... they make FOX look like factcheck.org.

I bet faux news is just upset that the Daily Show always makes fun of them, so they funded some researchers to make themselves look credible.

"The Daily Show is not watched to the exclusion of other sources," Boler said in an interview with CTV.ca. "In order to appreciate satire you have to have background knowledge. You're not going to have pleasure watching The Daily Show if you haven't been talking to your friends about what's going on, following other kinds of news sources."

--FTA

TV "news" is no longer journalism and should not be categorized as such. It's just a couple of blowhards who shoot the shiat for a while to fill air time rather than doing actual reporting. I could respect CNN 15 years ago, before Fox came around and started pushing for the lowest common denominator, but now they're all less than worthless.

Turn off the TV and READ!

That's a pretty small sample size: 85. I'd _love_ to know what vehicle they used to reach these conclusions. The truth is every Daily Show watcher I know also views "real news" as well. The Daily Show often does a wonderful job of disseminating some of the hidden bullshiat you see on the big networks.

In fact, in all the years I've watched the Daily Show, I've never once met someone that uses it as their sole source of knowledge -- and that number far exceeds 85.

CommonSenseSurrendersAny news outlet that does not present my preferred spin on things is not a reliable source for information.

Like 98% of Farkers.

I watch the news for entertainment purposes and read the news to be informed.

Hat Madder: Sadly, some people actually take Stephen Colbert seriously.

No kidding? Wow. Got any linkies? I could use a right good laff this morning.

/Aware teh stupid might simply make me sad
//Willing to take the chance

jobskee: CommonSenseSurrendersAny news outlet that does not present my preferred spin on things is not a reliable source for information.

Like 98% of Farkers.

Thank you for catching the meaning of my post, Capt. Obvious!

correlation =/= causation, etc etc

Blink: That's a pretty small sample size: 85. I'd _love_ to know what vehicle they used to reach these conclusions. The truth is every Daily Show watcher I know also views "real news" as well. The Daily Show often does a wonderful job of disseminating some of the hidden bullshiat you see on the big networks.

In fact, in all the years I've watched the Daily Show, I've never once met someone that uses it as their sole source of knowledge -- and that number far exceeds 85.

Exactly. You pretty much have to be reasonably informed about what's going on in the world (through other news sources) to be able to appreciate The Daily Show. My wife is in grad school, so doesn't have as much time as I do to follow the news (so consistently). There are clips from The Daily Show that I will find hilarious, while she doesn't get the joke until I give her the news background info to put the humor into perspective.

robot monkey: "The Daily Show is not watched to the exclusion of other sources," Boler said in an interview with CTV.ca. "In order to appreciate satire you have to have background knowledge. You're not going to have pleasure watching The Daily Show if you haven't been talking to your friends about what's going on, following other kinds of news sources."

--FTA

SherKhan: You need to be informed about issues and candidates to get the jokes.

I think the basis behind this research is Old Media with sand in their vagina, decrying the lost newspaper subscriptions. I'm amazed they didn't take potshots at Internet Blogs as well. I remember the Daily Show being a staple of my college years (especially the 2000 election), and the sophistication with which they presented the issues was far more accurate than the network and cable news programs.

Go cry, emo journalist.

Gary Gnu - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAwVIZDAUF0

Death by Misadventure: that is exactly how I feel about Fox News.

I think that is spelled Faux News... or is that Fix News?

Blink
That's a pretty small sample size: 85. I'd _love_ to know what vehicle they used to reach these conclusions.

According to TFA, they showed them selected 20 minute clips from either the Daily Show or NBC or CNN about one selected issue and looked what people knew about that issue afterwards.

Yeah, I'm totally convinced if it went like that.

LITTLE GIRL THINKS FROGS GO "WIGGIT WIGGIT" !

We now got the Kermit, our frog on the street.

Daily Show does a way better job of pointing out hypocricy and lies than the so-called real news does.

If everyone watched The Daily Show instead of "Sarah Palin- American Woman hosted by Greta Van Susteren", McCain would be doing a lot worse in the polls and the horrifying prospect of Palin as President would go away

Death by Misadventure 2008-09-14 09:29:52 AM
that is exactly how I feel about Fox News.


Sorry, this study was not about people like you who cannot accept anything that doesn't comport with your limited views, and preconceived biases.

Baybe you can volunteer as the test case for that study.

The methodology of this study is ridiculous. What, exactly, were they trying to prove?

Hat Madder 2008-09-14 09:44:30 AM
Sadly, some people actually take Stephen Colbert seriously.

If your only news source is CNN, MSNBC, or Fox you'll only have half the story. Read or watch news reports from both sides of the spectrum and decide for yourself.


Oh now there you go making sense again. Don't you know where you are? Heads are about to explode ( PC Load Letter )

lenfromak: "If you watch television news, you will know less about the world than if you just drink gin straight out of the bottle."
--Garrison Keillor

I must have been an extremely well informed college student, then.

CommonSenseSurrenders Quote 2008-09-14 10:00:20 AM
jobskee: CommonSenseSurrendersAny news outlet that does not present my preferred spin on things is not a reliable source for information.

Like 98% of Farkers.

Thank you for catching the meaning of my post, Capt. Obvious!

Am vying for the Captain Obvious cape. It comes with a really cool glowing sign that says, "This is a CAPE"

/obviously
//still going to steal your comment and repeat it

Blink: disseminating

...that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Otherwise, yah, good comment.

Blink: The Daily Show often does a wonderful job of disseminating some of the hidden bullshiat you see on the big networks.

Ohio State? Politics? Enough said.

Came for the Ric pic and will leave disappointed.

two story's by better respected sources disprove this article

Also, according to CNN, Nielsen Media Research statistics show that when directly compared with O'Reilly Factor viewers, "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. read the rest here

http://mediamatters.org/items/200605250003 and a second article here
http://www.dallasdancemusic.com/forums/awareness-politics/196074-new-study-shows -daily-show-viewers-more-informed-than-fox-news-viewers.html

The results of the survey depend entirely on where the students got their questions. Were they asking about lipstick and marvircks, or about issues and performance?

Hat Madder:
If your only news source is CNN, MSNBC, or Fox you'll only have half the their story. Read or watch news reports from both sides of the spectrum globe and decide for yourself.
There is NO 'spectrum' in US TV+cable news.

I don't think any show can touch Stewart's guest list.

The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are ABOUT MSM -- and how much they suck. And they also show clips of public figures putting their feet in their mouths, and other things that MSM typically REFUSES to show.
But their main line is revealing TV News for the Suc that it is.
DNRTFA;
FTA: "In a study of about 85 people"
That's not a study; that's a Test Group. The entire Fox newsroom population?
"About" 85? Can we Not Count that high??? Or did we drop a few "skewing" personalities?

/Maybe all those Peabody Awards and Emmys were "purchased".
//Colbert's appearance at the 2006 White House Correspondents dinner was a high-point in American Journalism.

And yet Jon Stewart would be the first to say and has said that he'd prefer it that way, were it true.

However, I have seen more hard-hitting journalism from the Daily Show than I have from real news sources.

Any person who uses the term 'fake news shows' should forfeit their right to participate in further conversation. The stories on TDS / TCR involve the actual, verified words and deeds of actual, verified political personalities, so that should rule out the use of the 'fake' appellation right there. 'Fake,' then, must refer to the format - that TDS/TCR do not deal with such matters in a sufficiently substantive or reverential manner.

Indeed.

Mainstream news somehow manages to be petty, exhaustive, and vindictive on the trivial level, and at the same time incurious, fawning, and obsequious at the substantive level. It's quite a feat, but perhaps not one that gives them any room to hand down judgement about what's 'real' news coverage.