Daily Show and Colbert Viewers Are Best Informed, FOX News Audience Ranks Near Worst

Brian Zick

Think Progress reports: A new study by the Pew Research Study shows that viewers of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report have the highest knowledge of national and international affairs, while Fox News viewers rank nearly dead last That's the headline, but the overall results of the survey are rather a bit disconcerting. The audience for NPR rates below O'Reilly's viewers and just one notch above Limbaugh's dittoheads. Which are ranked above consumers of news magazines, CNN, Google and Yahoo News, and network evening news shows. And the FOX audience still rated above viewers of network morning shows.

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