What was most startling in this study, however, was the presence of The Daily Show, a satire about the news hosted for many years by the comedian Jon Stewart, among the “most trusted” sources of news. Seventeen percent of liberal respondents named The Daily Show as their “most trusted source,” putting Stewart in a tie with CNN and public television and surpassing progressive MSNBC by seven points. MSNBC (whose motto for a time was “lean forward,” whatever that means) was the least-trusted source in 2014:
