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This is from a Pew Research Center article about whether Americans can distinguish between factual and opinion statements in the news. I think this is a real issue - I've pointed out this problem repeatedly on thread people start, citing what is clearly identified as an opinion piece as news.
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In today’s fast-paced and complex information environment, news consumers must make rapid-fire judgments about how to internalize news-related statements – statements that often come in snippets and through pathways that provide little context. A new Pew Research Center survey of 5,035 U.S. adults examines a basic step in that process: whether members of the public can recognize news as factual – something that’s capable of being proved or disproved by objective evidence – or as an opinion that reflects the beliefs and values of whoever expressed it.
Interesting responses, most are not that far apart but a rather large percentage of republicans and others still believe that Obama was not born here. Also the republicans believe that immigration is an enormous problem. Public statements do evidently influence opinion to a rather large degree, it doesn't matter if it is based on fact.
9 right.
31% differential between democrats and republicans regarding immigration being the largest problem.
It's hard to believe the percentage of people that can't tell the difference between fact based reporting, and narrative based reporting.
I see these people on this forum everyday.
Well 37% of republicans and 11% of democrats still believe that Obama wasn't born here. There are people on CD that believe that 9/11 and Sandy Hook were conspiracies, some believe both.
It's hard to believe the percentage of people that can't tell the difference between fact based reporting, and narrative based reporting.
I see these people on this forum everyday.
Exactly. I got 10 out of 10, but as the previous posters above me have said, this was easy. This is why we can't break through to the GOP crazies - only 63% of Republicans said that President Obama was born in the United States. 40% of all GOP still believe in that vile lie?
10 out of 10 ..... when will people understand that Opinion is not “news”?
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