http://swaits.com/articles/2006/05/27/stewart-vs-oreilly en-us 40 A Blog by Stephen Waits <p>An <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200605250003">article</a> over at <a href="http://mediamatters.org">Media Matters</a> has a few interesting points to make:</p> <blockquote> <p>&#8230; studies have shown that viewers of Comedy Central&#8217;s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart are consistently better informed about current events than consumers of other media, and Daily Show viewers are considerably better educated than viewers of The O&#8217;Reilly Factor. Further, consumers of Fox News in general have been found to be significantly more misinformed about current events than consumers of other mainstream media.</p> </blockquote> <p>That&#8217;s good stuff. I know a few highly educated people who gulp down everything O&#8217;Reilly says like mid-westerners on meth. Formal education doesn&#8217;t translate to intelligence, or one&#8217;s ability to see clearly. Those political blinders are thick.</p> Sat, 27 May 2006 20:07:48 -0500 urn:uuid:e8c1f484-3541-421a-abf7-3c968e2ba730 steve@waits.net (Stephen Waits) http://swaits.com/articles/2006/05/27/stewart-vs-oreilly tv politics http://swaits.com/articles/trackback/254