Posted on 02/11/2015 2:37:24 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
As a “millennial” (roughly speaking, someone between the ages of 18 and 29), I’ve grown used to being tarred with fallacious accusations...
Today’s meme is that we millennials are utterly devastated by Jon Stewart’s announcement that he will be leaving The Daily Show next year. “What Walter Cronkite was to an earlier generation...Stewart has been to millennials,” [says] the Boston Globe. Stewart has “hordes of millennial fans,” reports CNN....Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty, “Jon Stewart leaving the Daily Show is the equivalent of the Beatles breaking up.”
....let’s back up and see whether there exists any data to back up [these claims]...
As of 2013, The Daily Show was bringing in approximately 2 million nightly viewers. And according to an exhaustive Pew Survey from 2012, 39 percent of The Daily Show’s regular viewers are between the ages of 18 and 29. That means that approximately 780,000 millennials are regular Daily Show watchers. In the United States, there are 53 million people between the ages of 18 and 29. That means that a whopping 1.5 percent of millennials watch the Daily Show regularly! Let’s be generous and assume that, say, 5 million people watch The Daily Show even occasionally. That would still mean a paltry 1.95 million out of 53 million millennials are Stewart fans.
[More research shows] the average Daily Show viewer is 41 years old....
In other words, the great millennial following of The Daily Show is a total myth. Perhaps Stewart can “destroy” it on tonight’s broadcast.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Most people get their news on the internet not from Stewart.
In other news, Mark Levin reported last night on his radio show that last year, some 35 million people had downloaded his pod casts.
I’m 24 and I have never, not even once, seen an entire episode of Jon Stewart’s version of ‘Weekend Update’.
My son and daughter are both “Millennials,” and they don’t even own TV sets. They get all of their news from the internet.
Big Media is the one that has always pushed Stewart as a ‘news’ source. Millennials aren’t near as dumbed down as Big Media thinks.
I believe well over 20 million people per day listen to Rush Limbaugh. About 2 million watch the daily show with Jon Stewart. Rush reaches far more people of all ages than Stewart ever did.
I call them TV sets too. Sounds funny.
FWIW, I know a lot of young people who find Jon Stewart very amusing, and like him, but don’t actually take the time to listen to his show.
I can’t even make it all the way through any of the random clips that occasionally end up on FR
I also say Television Set... I once read or heard something where someone was making the point that the proper term is not “The Tellie” or “Tee-Vee”, but Television Set. I also don’t own one.
Never thought about that. I have been calling them "TV sets" since the '50s when I used to go to the store with my Dad as he tested the tubes to check for bad ones. I guess that it is similar to my Dad calling our fridge an "ice box."
Rush is always getting calls from teenagers and young adults.
I call that big flat panel thing on the wall showing pictures and sound a “TV”.
:-)
ps, in my younger days, Dad was often behind the tv checking tubes.
Don’t let the door hit ya where the sun don’t shine - you braying jackass.
Good riddance.
Do you have a hi-fi?
Maybe a wireless set?
I have a transistor radio that I sometimes use at the beach when I am on holiday.
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