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Daily Show and Colbert Report Replacing Traditional News Sources? | Indecision Forever | Political Humor and Satire Blog | 2012 Election | Comedy Central

Here's some kind of depressing news about The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Apparently, an unsettlingly high number of people think they're capable of replacing traditional news sources…

Thirty-two percent (32%) of adults ages 30-39 believe this to be true, while 42% disagree, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Thirty percent (30%) of those ages 18-29 say programs like the two Comedy Central shows that feature news reports with a comic twist are replacing traditional news outlets, but 35% disagree and another 35% are not sure.

What percentage of those people do you think understand the difference between making fun of news reports for 22 minutes four days a week and actually reporting news stories?

Listen, I'm not disparaging the subtle art of looking into a camera and saying a bunch of idiotic nonsense in a silly voice. I do realize that Wolf Blitzer will always have his place.

But he and Jon Stewart are doing two entirely different things. And it's scary to think that nearly a third of all Americans don't get that.