Comedy Central cutup Jon Stewart thinks people should stick to legitimate news sources - instead of going to programs like his "Daily Show," "The Late Show" and "The Tonight Show" to find out what's going on in the world.

Recent Pew Research Surveys show that about 29 percent of Americans under 30 are likely to cite Jay Leno, David Letterman and even Stewart as news sources.

"It's a crazy premise, it's crazy, they're crazy to say that," Stewart told student journalists on a recent trip to his alma mater, the College of William and Mary.

"You couldn't get all your news from our show, because our show wouldn't even make sense to you," he said.

"Information in today's society - it's such a blizzard, white-out-condition of information. Kids get information by osmosis today," Stewart said.

"You can't go anywhere, you can't log on to the Internet, without absorbing a variety of information."

The surveys say that viewers think the late-night comedy shows were more important sources of news for the 2000 elections than for news about the war on terrorism.

But Americans under the age of 30 are more than twice as likely to get their daily doses of news from late night comedy shows.

"I think what's relevant about that quote, or even that piece of information, is that perhaps younger people are much more savvy to the preposterous facade that news and politics put forth as truth," Stewart said. "And so they turn to any alternative source.

"But the idea that somehow kids get their news from late-night television comedy is absurd."

[Photo caption: "You can't go anywhere, you can't log on to the Internet, without absorbing a variety of information," Stewart told students.]