<![CDATA[Pew Survey: Viewers of Colbert and Stewart Score High on News Test (See Who Didn't!)]]>

1.0 link 119433 <![CDATA[Pew Survey: Viewers of Colbert and Stewart Score High on News Test (See Who Didn't!)]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/pew-survey-viewers-of-col_b_119433.html The results of the new Pew Survey on News Consumption (taken every two years and released this afternoon) suggest that viewers of the "fake news" programs The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are more knowledgeable about current events (as judged by three test questions) than watchers of "real" cable news shows hosted by Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly and Larry King, among others -- as well as average consumers of NBC, ABC, Fox News, CNN, C-SPAN and daily newspapers.

The national...

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