Well, this certainly won't lead to any insufferable late-night smugness: "The results of the new Pew Survey on News Consumption (taken every two years and released this afternoon) suggest that viewers of the 'fake news' programs 'The Daily Show ' and 'The Colbert Report' are more knowledgeable about current events (as judged by three test questions) than watchers of 'real' cable news shows hosted by Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly and Larry King, among others — as well as average consumers of NBC, ABC, Fox News, CNN, C-SPAN and daily newspapers," reports Greg Mitchell at Editor and Publisher.