“Fake News Shows Don’t Teach Viewers Much About Political Issues, Study Finds”
A new study suggests that entertainment news shows such as The Daily Show or The Colbert Report may not be as influential in teaching voters about political issues and candidates as was previously thought.
Previous studies have reported up to 48 percent of all adults and 60 percent of young voters used fake news shows as a source of campaign news in the 2004 presidential election. [emphasis added] But researchers from Ohio State University have found reasons to discount how effective these shows are in informing the general public.
The study found that people who watch fake news shows learn far less about political issues and candidates than people who watch television news shows on networks such as CNN and NBC.
This story is so packed with irony and incidental humor that I’m dizzy. Gosh, now let’s see…The Daily Show, Colbert Report, NBC’s Weekend Update on SNL…these shows are all 1) extremely critical of those in power as all political humor is by nature 2) are extremely left leaning and far more favorable to Democrats than Republicans. What’s really amazing is that not only is fake news not a good source…it’s not even CLOSE to NBC and CNN as if those are two really good sources anymore.
At least we know where the left gets their news now, and why their talking points seem so surreal.
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Shouldn’t they include the alphabet soup of News Shows, ABC, C-BS, NBS, PMSNBS and the rest of the biased news shows everywhere.
if adults are so stupid that they are relying on these shows for their news on candidates and the issues then they are to stupid to vote. seriously, i watch more news than anyone i know and they tease me about it. most of my friends get online, check their email then head to a game site or myspace, me i have the news on and the compouter fired up and i andi am checking all sorts of web news sites. very sad how miss informed so many people are.
Oh Luva,
LOL, you sound like me since I have been back on my own computer!
Which I must commend Mike for 🙂
And not a moment to soon 🙂
Hell, I have not watched a regular TV show or news in years. I watch sports, history, Discovery or science channel. the onlty show that I watch now is Burn Notice, I do watch 24. ON HBO I did watch the Sopranos, Rome and Deadwood, but they are all done. So I just read news and listen to radio.