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The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

Jon Stewart's satire show 'makes young cynical'

A couple of political scientists argue that Jon Stewart's hit TV satire programme The Daily Show makes young people cynical about politics and politicians, and could lead them to abstain from voting. The East Carolina University academics made their claims after testing college students' reactions to various video clips of coverage of the 2004 presidential candidates compared to their reactions after watching Stewart's show. The results, revealed in the latest issue of American Politics Research, showed that the participants rated candidates more negatively after watching Stewart. This sounded unusually one-sided until I read Marty Kaplan's blog pointing out that reading the study puts the results in an entirely different light. Good for Marty. (Via washingtonpost.com and huffingtonpost.com)

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