The consumers of TV satire 40 years ago were assumed by the satirists to be pretty well-informed people already. Now there are indications that a lot of people, especially young people, are skipping the regular news and going straight to the satire.
According to a survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press earlier this year, 21% of people aged 18-29 "regularly" got news about the election campaign from "The Daily Show" or the monologues of late-night comedians--about the same number as watched network news shows or got news from the Internet.
Friday, October 22, 2004
And in the interest of fairness...
James Bowman writes in OpinionJournal this alternate take on Jon Stewart's recent dustup with Tucker Carlson of CNN. Not sure I agree with all of this, but Bowman's point IS important when he talks about how audiences have changed (not for the better):
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