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- 5 October, 2006 -
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An Indiana University study has shown The Daily Show to be as substantive as network news.
Julie Fox, assistant professor of telecommunications said, ” there is some substance on there, and in some cases, like John Edwards announcing his candidacy, the news is made on the show. You have real newsmakers coming on, and yes, sometimes the banter and questions get a little silly, but there is also substantive dialogue going on … It’s a legitimate source of news.”
On the other hand their study found that The Daily Show’s audio and visual content contained more humor than substance, but their study also found more hype than substance in broadcast news.
“Interestingly, the average amounts of video and audio substance in the broadcast network news stories were not significantly different than the average amounts of visual and audio substance in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart stories about the presidential election,” she wrote in a paper to appear in the summer 2007 edition of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media published by the Broadcast Educator’s Association.
