Fact Check: Jon Stewart misinformed on who is misinformed

Published June 21, 2011 4:00am ET



In the most heated portion of Jon Stewart’s interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Stewart claimed: “Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? … Fox viewers, consistently, every poll.”

But Politifact looked up some recent polls on media viewer knowledge and it turns out Stewart is the one who is misinformed. On Pew’s 2008 Media Survey, Politifact reports:

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