Posted on 04/16/2007 2:57:37 PM PDT by Karl Rand
Pew judged the levels of knowledgeability (correct answers) among those surveyed and found that those who scored the highest were regular watchers of Comedy Central's The Daily Show and Colbert Report. They tied with regular readers of major newspapers in the top spot -- with 54% of them getting 2 out of 3 questions correct. Watchers of the Lehrer News Hour on PBS followed just behind.
Virtually bringing up the rear were regular watchers of Fox News. Only 1 in 3 could answer 2 out of 3 questions correctly. Fox topped only network morning show viewers.
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Other details are equally eye-opening. Pew judged the levels of knowledgeability (correct answers) among those surveyed and found that those who scored the highest were regular watchers of Comedy Central's The Daily Show and Colbert Report. They tied with regular readers of major newspapers in the top spot -- with 54% of them getting 2 out of 3 questions correct. Watchers of the Lehrer News Hour on PBS followed just behind.
Virtually bringing up the rear were regular watchers of Fox News. Only 1 in 3 could answer 2 out of 3 questions correctly. Fox topped only network morning show viewers.
Told that Shia was one group of Muslims struggling in Iraq, only 32% of the total sample could name "Sunni" as the other key group.
The percentage of those who knew their state's governor dropped to 2 in 3. Almost half know that Rep. Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House and 2 in 3 know that Condi Rice is secretary of state. But just 29% can identify Scooter Libby, 21% know Robert Gates and 15% can name Sen. Harry Reid.
But nearly 9 in 10 knew about President Bush's troop escalation in Iraq.
Men scored higher than women, and older Americans did better than younger, on average. Democrats and Republicans were about equally represented in the most knowledgeable group but there were more Republicans in the least aware group.
You did much better than me. I scored 77% (I have always been a bad test taker) and I have never seen either of those two shows.
..that's real comforting
I do enjoy the Colbert Report.
Well just damn. I got screwed. I missed “two” because there was one question which if answered incorrectly also nails you for getting a follow up wrong even though you never get asked the follow up.
The first question was a little obscure anyway I thought. Did Congress pass minimum wage increase? a- just the house. b- just the senate. c- passed both. d- passed neither.
And no- I did not answer “just the senate”!
I scored the same—77%, I’m embarrassed because I’m a real news junkie. The 2 I missed were related to the minimum wage question. I wasn’t following that story at all I guess.
I don’t watch Colbert or the Daily Show though. ALl my news comes from FR or FNC or both.
..the author meant to say knowledge ability (correct spelling)...for those who have spell check and use it to get the (correct answers)
If you go to the Pew site, you will see that Editor & Publisher left out the O’Reilly Factor and Limbaugh in the list of programs watched by the most knowledgeable.
Good thing they didn’t include listeners of “Air America”, because there might have been some “ZEROS” included on the list.
8 out of 9 for me. I missed the one about Hillary having declared her candidacy. I must have a mind block associated with anything Clintonian.
What a bizarrely misleading article. According to the Pew results on their web page:
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=319
... Rush Limbaugh and O’Reilly fans were right beside the Daily Show watchers, and were at the top of the list.
FOX news did not score significantly differently than did local TV news, network evening news, blogs or morning shows. CNN was only marginally better than FOX.
correct answer is e - it is in committee due to differences in what was passed by each.
“What a bizarrely misleading article.”
Bias by omission.
Damn....me two...mess up the first of the MW questions and you get two wrong....
For a FNC girl I guess I did ok!
I scored 77 also. I think the ones I got wrong were the last 4 on the same page.
http://pewresearch.org/newsiq/quiz/index.php
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