The announcement yesterday that SpongeBob causes hyperactivity in preschoolers is but the tip of the iceberg. Preliminary results of other studies of popular cartoons point to even more ominous affects on our nation’s children.

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Just how big is the disparity between Jon Stewart and Fox News?

Only The O’Reilly Factor (2.8 million) drew more total viewers than The Daily Show (2.3 million). Jon Stewart beat everything else on Fox News. Stewart beat Sean Hannity by 246,000 viewers. He topped Bret Baier by 399,000 viewers. Jon Stewart beat Glenn Beck by almost 500,000 viewers, 1.812 million to 2.3 million. He beat Shep Smith (1.712 million) and Greta Van Susteren (1.702 million) by almost 600,000 viewers each. When Stewart and O’Reilly go head to head at 11 PM, Jon Stewart tops Bill O’Reilly’s replay by almost a million viewers (2.3 million to 1.321 million).

This is why Fox News both hates and fears Jon Stewart. Not only is he more popular than they are, but he devotes much of his program to exposing the biased reporting of FNC. Even worse, Stewart is teaching his younger audience what Fox News is all about. Stewart doesn’t exclusively take on Fox News. His problem is with television news in general, but since Fox is the biggest offender, they get most of his attention.

Jon Stewart is the biggest threat to Fox News’ future out there. He is literally teaching his audience, which is bigger than FNC’s, how to see through the partisan propaganda that Rupert Murdoch has based his network on. Stewart is educating an entire generation of viewers on how to watch cable news, or more specifically how not to watch Fox News.

Don't you just love getting good news the first thing on a Sunday morning?

Something about me loves my childhood meeting my teenage nerdery. If only it were real.

Andrew Shears created this US Map with a TV show to go with each state. It’s good to see that TV sometimes happens outside of New York and California! Shears also explains why he choose each show. You can enlarge the picture at Thinking Pseudogeographically. Link -via The Daily What

* Conantown
* Suck It, Jay
* Conan’s Shore
* @#$! My Conan Says
* Mad-At-NBC Man
* Conan 4.0
* The DVRed From Last Night Show
* Andy’s Back … Again?
* Carrot Top’s Comeback
* The Andy Richter Show, Featuring Conan O’Brien
* Conan’s Revenge
* “O” (Already used for something.)
* Conan the O’Brienarian

* Okrah
* Abcess Hollywood
* Fiends
* Diff’rent Smokes
* America’s Next Top Motel
* The X Films
* One Lay At a Time
* Big Bong Theory
* The Veal World
* The Amazing Rice
* Hippy Days
* One Tree Hell
* How I Bet Your Mother
* Prey’s Anatomy
* Smellville
* Dancing With The Stans