I've probably said this before in one way or another, but one thing which has long puzzled me was the idea that bloggers and blog readers were a bunch of young people was something treated with derision. I mean, if us lefty bloggers could really turn a few hundred thousand twenty-somethings into politics-and-media-junkies you'd think we'd be hired by every newspaper and political consultant in the country to tell them how it's done.
Similarly, what's with cranky old man Bill O'Reilly insulting the Daily Show audience? The thing about the Daily Show is that to really find the show funny you actually have to have a decent awareness of current events. Not all the bits require that, but the multi-layered politics/media satire does. "Kids" interested in news and politics? I thought that would be a good thing!
