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A more recent survey, released by the Pew Research Center on April 15, 2007, indicates that regular viewers of The Daily Show tend to be more knowledgeable about news than audiences of other news sources. Approximately 54% of The Daily Show viewers scored in the high knowledge range, followed by Jim Lehrer's program at 53% and Bill O'Reilly's program at 51%, significantly higher than the 34% of network morning show viewers. The survey shows that changing news formats have not made much difference on how much the public knows about national and international affairs, but adds that there is no clear connection between news formats and what audiences know.[77] The Project for Excellence in Journalism released a content analysis report suggesting that The Daily Show comes close to providing the complete daily news.[78]
The regular audience for the news parody program The Colbert Report is somewhat better educated than the regular audience for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart (39% college graduates vs. 30%). Both shows' audiences have younger age profiles than other TV news sources, with less than a quarter of Colbert (22%) and Daily Show (23%) viewers over the age of 50, compared with more than half of Hardball (58%) and Hannity & Colmes (53%) viewers 50 and older.
About a third of the regular viewers of The Colbert Report (34%) got all three political knowledge questions correct as did 30% of the regular audience for The Daily Show. While a higher percentage of Colbert viewers than Daily Show viewers got each of the questions correct, the differences were greatest in the percentages able to identify the secretary of state. Nearly two-thirds of regular Colbert viewers (64%) named Rice as secretary of state compared with 47% of regular Daily Show viewers.
The OP is about Franken's amendment and asks why any decent human could cast a "nay" vote. This
woman wasn't just brutally raped but mutilated as well. That is more important than whose news is more accurate or whether or not we're funding these private defense contractors who were not legally responsible for what happened to Ms. Jones...of course we are...we hired them. The thread is about a brutal assault...watch the interview with Dan Abrams and grasp the kind of atrocities that these 30 representatives apparently believe are acceptable.
The OP is about Franken's amendment and asks why any decent human could cast a "nay" vote. This
woman wasn't just brutally raped but mutilated as well. That is more important than whose news is more accurate or whether or not we're funding these private defense contractors who were not legally responsible for what happened to Ms. Jones...of course we are...we hired them. The thread is about a brutal assault...watch the interview with Dan Abrams and grasp the kind of atrocities that these 30 representatives apparently believe are acceptable.
...I posted something similar to this also. Who cares what "news" channel viewers are smarter...the bigger issue here is the 30 individuals who think that this type of behavior is best dealt with in arbitration and that the Government has no authority to require humane treatment of workers who work for “government†contractors. This is a sad day indeed...
...I posted something similar to this also. Who cares what "news" channel viewers are smarter...the bigger issue here is the 30 individuals who think that this type of behavior is best dealt with in arbitration and that the Government has no authority to require humane treatment of workers who work for “government†contractors. This is a sad day indeed...
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Isn't it? How many of them have daughters or granddaughters, I wonder?
And here's betting that Halliburton/KBR won't be paying for the reconstructive
surgery she requires from having her pectoral muscles torn. What kind of animals would do this, and what kind of animals would vote against an amendment that would try to protect female employees? I need Alka-Seltzer.
Politicians have an ego,when the opponents try to ram a law down their throats,they react...
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So it's okay to vote "nay" on an amendment to protect female employees of Halliburton/KBR from gang rape? You believe that it's political? If it is, those are 30 spineless and pitiful excuses for human beings. When
an employee is drugged, gang-raped, held captive and is so severely
injured that she's going to require several surgeries, all done by other
company employees, it's acceptable? Ask the women in your family if they believe that such an amendment is a good thing for women; I suspect they'll say that women deserve such protection.
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