Daily Show / Colbert Viewers are Fucking Smart

The good people at Pew just released their yearly survey of how people consume news.

Once again, people who watch Daily Show and the Colbert Report are way smarter and much better informed.

The Colbert Report and The Daily Show are notable for having relatively well-informed audiences that are younger than the national average: 34% of regular Colbert viewers answered the three political knowledge questions correctly, as did 30% of regular Daily Show viewers. Less than a quarter of either audience is older than 50 (22% Colbert, 23% Daily Show), compared with 41% of the general public.

I am about half way through the report, but it is a good read.