Daily Show Viewers Are Better Informed
This article from Business-Journal.Com reports on a poll done by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Center that finds that viewers of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart are more informed that non-viewers, viewers of other late night talk shows, and even viewers of network news, cable news, or newspapers.
Young people who watched The Daily Show scored 48% correct on the campaign knowledge test while young people who did not watch any late-night comedy scored 39% correct. Meanwhile, young people who watched four of more days of network news scored 40% correct, equally frequent cable news viewers 48% correct and newspaper readers 46% correct.
I regularly watch the Daily Show because it is quite funny. In 2000 when they named their coverage Indecision 2000 and then it took a month to figure out the winner, I was hooked.