Last year, Pew and the Colombia J School analyzed the 14,000 stories that appeared on Google News' front page.

They come there, many times their parents you can't see it, but there's a church pew that I bought in a Berkeley auction right there the parents will sometimes watch while their kids are being tutored.

Survey after survey, from Pew Research to the Annenberg Center for Public Policy, has found that Daily Show viewers are better informed about current events than the viewers of all major network and cable news shows.

Pew Research, the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, and the most important but the least known is the American National Election Studies group that is the world's longest, most respected poll of political attitudes.

I actually came across this fascinating study by the Pew Center this week that revealed that an active Facebook user is three times as likely as a non Internet user to believe that most people are trustworthy.

The Pew Institute, which produces good data on a regular basis on, for instance, in the States, says that and I think that this number is conservative 50 percent of anybody with email access at work is actually doing private email from his office.