{"id":1346,"date":"2006-10-08T08:14:42","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T06:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/08\/its-no-joke-iu-study-finds-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-to-be-as-substantive-as-network-news\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T13:59:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T11:59:33","slug":"its-no-joke-iu-study-finds-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-to-be-as-substantive-as-network-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/08\/its-no-joke-iu-study-finds-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-to-be-as-substantive-as-network-news\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s no joke: IU study finds The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to be as substantive as network news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christo sent me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not surprisingly, a second-by-second analysis of The Daily Show&#8217;s audio and visual content found considerably more humor than substance &#8212; Stewart himself has insisted that he is a comedian and not a journalist. A similar analysis of network coverage found considerably more hype than substance in broadcast newscasts. Examples of such hype included references to polls, political endorsements and photo opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; she wrote in the paper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It should be noted that the broadcast network news stories about the presidential election were significantly shorter, on average, than were The Daily Show with Jon Stewart stories,&#8221; she added. &#8220;The argument could be made that while the amount of substance per story was not significantly different, the proportion of each story devoted to substance was greater in the network news stories &#8230; On the other hand, the proportion of stories per half hour program devoted to the election campaign was greater in The Daily Show.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsinfo.iu.edu\/news\/page\/normal\/4159.html\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christo sent me: Not surprisingly, a second-by-second analysis of The Daily Show&#8217;s audio and visual content found considerably more humor than substance &#8212; Stewart himself has insisted that he is a comedian and not a journalist. A similar analysis of network coverage found considerably more hype than substance in broadcast newscasts. Examples of such hype [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9,8,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","category-pop-culture","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-stimulus","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-lI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":596,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/27\/jon-stewart-daily-show-gaywatch-042605\/","url_meta":{"origin":1346,"position":0},"title":"Jon Stewart Daily Show Gaywatch 04\/26\/05","author":"nathaniel","date":"27 April 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"link: Jon Stewart Daily Show Gaywatch 04\/26\/05 hee.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;news and politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":979,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/14\/jon-stewart-on-gay-rights\/","url_meta":{"origin":1346,"position":1},"title":"jon stewart on gay rights","author":"nathaniel","date":"14 December 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Great video clip on current homo-events in the US, South Africa and England on Crooks and Liars (links directly to video clip - both Windows and QuickTime versions). 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