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Abstract Recent reports published by the CitationPew Research Center for the People and the Press (2000, Citation2004) propose that young audiences are abandoning traditional news as a source of election information in favor of late-night comedy programs. However, additional evidence (CitationYoung neither was significant. This further suggests that the audience differences in age and education did not, over time, become more or less important in predicting differences in news attention. 15. The nonsignificant effect of the Iowa caucuses among Daily Show dominant viewers does not necessarily indicate that this effect is significantly less than that for the Leno/Letterman dominant group. Thus, we used a t test to compare the coefficients for the Iowa effect found for Leno/Letterman dominant viewers and Daily Show dominant viewers. This difference was not significant; however, given the relatively smaller daily sample sizes and wider sampling variability of the Daily Show audience, we likely did not have ample statistical power to detect a difference here. Similar conclusions can be drawn with regard to differences in the size of the quadratic effects across the Daily Show and Leno/Letterman equations, which were also not significant.
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