the washington post, political scientists and the east carolina university are on fucking crack

Jon Stewart, Enemy of Democracy?

To test for a "Daily Effect," Baumgartner and Morris showed video clips of coverage of the 2004 presidential candidates to one group of college students and campaign coverage from "The CBS Evening News" to another group. Then they measured the students' attitudes toward politics, President Bush and the Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.).

The results showed that the participants rated both candidates more negatively after watching Stewart's program. Participants also expressed less trust in the electoral system and more cynical views of the news media, according to the researchers' article, in the latest issue of American Politics Research.

"Ultimately, negative perceptions of candidates could have participation implications by keeping more youth from the polls," they wrote.

less trust and more cynical views does not a lost vote make. man they really will just blame literally anything for the shortcomings of the human race. there's always some video game, some band or tv show, movie that holds the secret to preventing gang violence or murder, rape, not voting, drug use. whatever. they need to come up with some kind of vaccine to give us as children so as to prevent the inevitability of snagging our noggins on our long intestines as adults. cause goddamnit we got alotta people with their heads lodged right up their poop chute.

posted by Courtney at 11:33 a.m.

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