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Daily Show's Viewers Best O'Reilly's In Political Quiz

Posted by timothy on from the jon-stewart-is-the-greatest-living-american dept.

tjg89 writes "CNN.com has an interesting article about some deragatory comments made about Daily Show viewers by Bill O'Reilly and how Comedy Central reacted. They not only proved that the Daily Show viewers are better informed than viewers of his show, but they are also more informed than viewers of Jay Leno and David Lettermen. Are more slashdot readers Daily Show people or O'Reilly people?" Update: 09/29 16:55 GMT by T : The Daily Show's audience actually topped viewers of "The Tonight Show,""The Late Show" and "The O'Reilly Factor"; CNN just carried the story. (Thanks to reader Robert Nevitt for the correction.)

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  1. oreilly.com Yep, I am in that camp. by tod_miller · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Although WROX also make a fine good yarn.

    Who is this Letterman guy? Is he another hyped up CTO who publishes a blog, or has he written any good books/articles...

    *comes down from development high*

    Oooooooh comedy... I'll take Seinfeld Series 1-3 thanks.

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  2. FOX not CNN by VJoseph · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bill O'Reilly is actually on Fox News, not CNN.

  3. Re:Fox? by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Nice moderation (-1 OFFTOPIC), as usual. The headline is incorrect. The Daily Show's viewers bested views of CBS [Letterman], NBC [Leno], and Fox News [O'Reilly]. CNN is not involved in these 3 shows. In fact, CNN isn't even under the same parent company as any of the other shows. And this is offtopic?

    The headline should be corrected.

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  4. I was a Bill O'Reilly fan... by bergeron76 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... but he kept cutting my Mic.

    Daily Show all the way; CNN the rest of the way here but Never, Never FoxNews. The only Fair and Balanced they are is to the far right.

    (Although Laurie Dhue is a FOX!!! How do you do Laurie Dhue, I would love to do you too...)

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  5. Re:O'Reilly by OreoCookie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    IMHO: If the moderators on Slasdot disagree with you then you get modded Troll or Flamebait. If they agree with you then you are Interesting or Informative. They might just as well change moderation to only two choices Agree-Disagree.

  6. Re:Not Surprising . . . by OreoCookie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is not surprising for two reasons: first, Bill O'Reilly saying something derogatory about anyone is about as novel as shit coming out of my ass. He's the Rush Limbaugh of TV: extremely close minded and very inflammatory to those who don't agree with him

    This is modded 5 Insightful???????
    I have thoroughly studied the moderation system and I have a developed an evolutionary theory about Slashdot. In the beginning the founders where the only moderators and they mostly only mod'ed up people they agreed with. Those people accumulated karma and eventually became moderators themselves. They also (mostly) only mod up what they agree with and the cycle repeats. After just a few generations of moderators all objectivity has been culled from the herd. The "genetic marker" carried in the karma ensures that all following generations will agree with the founders. In this way Slashdot can never deviate from that which it was intended by the founders no matter how diverse a community of people attempt to participate. That is a friggin brilliant design if you ask me.