What Do You Know?
Pew Study on the Media: “In spite of an expanding variety of ways to get news, a sizable minority of young people continues to go newsless on a typical day. Fully 29% of those younger than 25 say they got no news yesterday either from digital news platforms, including cell phones and social networks, or traditional news platforms. That is little changed from 33% in 2010.”
I read it on Facebook: “In the shifting online landscape, the use of mobile devices and social networking sites have replaced a traditional tool — search engines — as the driver of growth in finding news online.”
What a drag: “Since 2008, there have been steep declines in the percentages of young people and liberal Democrats who say they enjoy following the news a lot.”
The John Edwards strategy was to make ‘em laugh.
“They were pounding on me for positive information. You know, where is some good news we can share with people? We were monitoring all these polls and I was sending the ones that were most favorable because [campaign aides] wanted to share them with reporters,” Hickman testified on May 14 at the trial in Greensboro, N.C. “We were not finding very much good news and I was trying to give them what I could find.”
Hickman testified that when circulating the polls, he didn’t much care if they were accurate. “I didn’t necessarily take any of these as for—as you would say, for the truth of the matter. I took them more as something that could be used as propaganda for the campaign,” the veteran pollster said.
Information, information everywhere. And what have we got to show for it?
About half the public (52%) also knew that the national unemployment rate is about 8%. Almost all regular audiences were at least as likely as the general public to get this question right.
Just 22% of the public identified Germany as the country that Angela Merkel leads. Many audiences fared somewhat better on this question than the public as a whole, but most regular readers, viewers and listeners did not know this or offered no response.
Two-thirds of the public knew that Barack Obama—not Mitt Romney—is more supportive of increasing taxes on higher-income people. Majorities of all news audiences answered this question correctly.
News You Can Use: “Romney truly is the whitest man to run for president because he doesn’t realize how his whiteness has influenced his life and how his class standing provided him with remarkable educational and financial opportunities.”
The Most Interesting Man in the World
George Zimmerman: the Whitest Man in the World
Given the state of public discourse, which of the following is likely true?
- Some voters will cast their ballots only if someone drives them to the poll and gives them an Obama Phone (32%, 14 Votes)
- Billions of dollars in advertising has convinced voters to ignore all political messages. (27%, 12 Votes)
- Some voters must be reached by an appeal to novelty rather than reason (20%, 9 Votes)
- A certain percentage of the vote is completely random (11%, 5 Votes)
- Some voters are completely inert (10%, 4 Votes)
Total Voters: 44
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In a similar vein:
4 Reasons We’ve Stopped Trusting the Media:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-reasons-weve-stopped-trusting-media/
I spoke to a young woman today, and she seemed quite assured that she knew all there was to know about everything she needed to make her life happy and complete.
I never watch the news or read the papers
She smiled and shook her radiant blonde hair
It’s just a constant stream of crime and rapers
It got so that I just no longer care
I have my friends on Facebook who inform me
Of things that will not complicate my life
Like whose relationships are hot and stormy
And which of my old friends has left his wife
I have no time for politics or world news
That stuff is boring and is quite old hat
I have a friend who’s up to date on world views
But he became a bore and that was that
I know there’s an election in November
Although I’m not so sure about the date
They had one long ago if I remember
But boring stuff like that does not relate
I think I heard a war somewhere or other
Is ending soon but maybe I misheard
I have a friend who got it from her brother
We aren’t sure of that but that’s the word
A friend said polls say Romney’s badly losing
I don’t know who he is but that’s a shame
I don’t know why they want us to be choosing
I’m sure they’re both fine men, it’s just a game
It doesn’t matter who wins the election
My life won’t change and that is why I say
I don’t think I’ll be making a selection
It’s boring and I must be on my way
I watched her walk away her fine hips swinging
I watched the sunlight sparkle on her hair
Her lips moved and I knew that she was singing
A lovely girl, and one without a care
anyone seen the big teaser on drudge right now?
I’m not sure what the first video, about the reward for the head of the anti-Mohammed filmmaker, has to do with the topic. On that subject, as the guy is an American citizen we owe it to protect him, but should he be assassinated I wouldn’t shed many tears, and then we’d get to nuke Cairo. Almost a fair trade.
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Walt @ 2: Excellent!
3. cjm
http://www.drudgereport.com/
would be nice if it were the khalidi tape. but likely not.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/226104/i-l-times-i-suppresses-obamas-khalidi-bash-tape/andrew-c-mccarthy
I wonder if the level of ignorance and apathy is greater now than in any other time in history?
Pretty much proven that Conservatives care about issues and Liberals care about themes. Obama does themes. Romney issues. So I suppose it breaks down to Conservative/Liberal split in voters.
According to Drudge, it’s a devastating race speech, a la Jeremiah Wright:
‘For nearly 40 minutes, using an accent he never adopts in public, Obama describes a racist, zero-sum society, in which the white majority profits by exploiting black America’… OBAMA DECLARES HOW POOR PEOPLE: ‘Need help with basic skills, how to shop, how to show up for work on time, how to wear the right clothes, how to act appropriately in an office’
At 9 PM, the mask is removed. Will the MSM look?
“Beat the Devil”
Kris Kristopherson
If you waste your time a’ talking
To the people who don’t listen
To the things that you are saying
Who do you thinks gonna hear?
And if you should die explaining
How the things that they complain about
Are things they could be changing
Who do you thinks gonna care?
There were other lonely singers
In a world gone deaf and blind
Who were crucified
For what they tried to show
And their voices have been scattered
By the swirling winds of time
For the truth remains
That no one wants to know.
‘Daily Show’ usually wins ratings over all news except Fox.
Look what the media did to this poor professor… Reuters did that.
It is government by “What do you know?” versus government by “Who do you know?”
Who really should vote? The vote is power. It is a loaded gun. Democracy is rule by the people. Does that mean everyone? Should Yurps and Iranians get to vote? Should Chinese bond holders? Should eaters of Obama Cheese? Who do we hand the gun to?
There is some digital judo to be played using the other forms of information dissemination.
I do hope this Daily Show YouTube tape goes viral.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/03/video-stewart-rips-obama-admin-duck-and-cover-up-on-benghazi/
If this is the way to get the news out, it is not the best way, but at least folks will learn.