Rally to Restore Sanity: Interviews with Participants.

On October 30, 2010, thousands of people gathered in the National Mall for the "Rally to Restore Sanity" called for by Jon Stewart on his show.

While participants attended for a variety of reasons, many of them raised concerns about the deteriorating state of news media, especially the hyperbolic and hyperpartisan content of 24/7 cable news networks.

Many of those who expressed concerns nonetheless cited partisan news outlets as their primary source for news, while others cited The Daily Show.

Not a single participant listed their regional newspaper as a source for news, and it was telling that the majority of the people we spoke to were unaware of the details of the elections in their congressional districts (this despite many of them having already voted.)

If the intention of the "Rally to Restore Sanity" was to dissuade people from voicing divisive and paranoid political accusations, Most of the attendees were 9/11 Truthers who accused the Bush administration of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks.