The Daily Show

Congratulations to Jon Stewart and his team at The Daily Show.They are now also getting international recognition.

Last night on dutch TV they appeared in an article on Nova, the dutch equivalent of 60 Minutes. Not sure what the gist of the article was as I missed the beginning but the fact that they are getting mentioned on major european news programmes is significant.

Already many TV viewers here in the States claim that they get a better perspective on world news by watching The Daily Show than by watching the news programmes that are fed to us by the 5 large media conglomerates.

Check this out for example:

Polling conducted between July 15 and Sept. 19 among 19,013 adults showed that on a six-item political knowledge test people who did not watch any late-night comedy programs in the past week answered 2.62 items correctly, while viewers of Late Night with David Letterman on CBS answered 2.91, viewers of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno answered 2.95, and viewers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart answered 3.59 items correctly. That meant there was a difference of 16 percentage points between Daily Show viewers and people who did not watch any late-night programming.