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 .