Quote:Regarding your first two links.  The first is a "News Editorial" (if you could call it that) that gives nothing of substance.  They supposedly asked people what news sources that they consumed, then "graded" people on whether they were "right or wrong".  They don't reveal the questions or answers, only the "grades".  What is determined to be "right or wrong" and by what standards?

 

Not sure why, but I randomly decided to check in on this topic and skim through the last page or so tonight. I have no idea what you're discussing, so I have no dog in the race so to say, but this post stuck out to me because I generally feel the same way; show me the study rather than someone trying to summarize the study and twisting its words. Which, is why I was so surprised to see the link OFace provided was to BusinessInsider, because they're usually pretty good at sourcing their claims, in my experience with them. So I checked it out.

 

For the sake of either discussion purposes (if anyone cares) or just to quell any curiosity anyone might have regarding the study: if you click the hyperlink in the first sentence of the BI article (the part that reads "Fox News and MSNBC have a negative impact on people’s current events knowledge") it takes you to the actual study results, with the exact wording of the questions + accepted answers and the findings. Or you should, hopefully, be able to click this link and be taken directly to the study; http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2012/confirmed/

 

Hope this helps, or is at least relevant to somebody's interests. :thumbsup:

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