{"id":944,"date":"2014-10-21T15:51:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T15:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=944"},"modified":"2014-10-21T15:51:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T15:51:39","slug":"pew-determines-conservatives-watch-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2014\/10\/21\/pew-determines-conservatives-watch-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"PEW Determines Conservatives Watch Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pew just released the results of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.org\/2014\/10\/21\/political-polarization-media-habits\/\">one year study of political attitudes and media habits<\/a>. Their conclusions reveal the obvious:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are tightly clustered around a single news source, far more than any other group in the survey, with <a id=\"twt1\" class=\"tweetable\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http:\/\/pewrsr.ch\/mediapolarization&amp;text=47%25%20of%20consistent%20conservatives%20say%20%40FoxNews%20is%20their%20main%20source%20for%20news%20about%20government%20and%20politics\" target=\"_blank\">47% citing Fox News as their main source for news about government and politics.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"409e209f-7049-4e88-a7c7-caf0d39ccbae\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">Are<\/span>, when on Facebook, more likely than those in other ideological groups to hear political opinions that are in line with their own views.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, the issue of media bias <span id=\"41c1a9c8-e5c4-4889-b891-3593e4ff1f32\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">were not found<\/span> limited to the most conservatives of conservatives, but this group seemed the most extreme.<\/p>\n<p>The conclusions are similar to the position taken by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefilterbubble.com\/\">Eli Pariser in &#8220;The Filter Bubble&#8221;<\/a>. The reality is that the more we think we are becoming informed, the more extreme our positions become. We begin to assume our position is actually commonly held.<\/p>\n<p>I have tried to determine <a href=\"http:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/07\/need-a-way-to-test\/\">what can be done about this problem<\/a>\u00a0and see no solution for those who do not accept the possibility of a reality other than their own. For those seeking a simple solution, I recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/news360.com\/\">News 360<\/a> as a way to locate multiple sources for a given <span id=\"3dbdf001-2f31-484a-b71d-676d2bc56011\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">story<\/span> or <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2014\/03\/27\/run-out-of-internet-to-read-randoms-new-ios-app-is-for-you\/\">Random <\/a>&#8211; an app that learns the topics you like and presents stories related to these topics. Or &#8211; you could probably just watch Fox News on M<span id=\"bc679f51-1a9b-4380-9e9c-2d16568cbbe8\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">,<\/span>W &amp; F and MSNBC on T<span id=\"d21f3690-3303-469b-b003-c9104d813c89\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">,<\/span>R &amp; S. I think everyone should watch football on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pew just released the results of a one year study of political attitudes and media habits. Their conclusions reveal the obvious: Are tightly clustered around a single news source, far more than any other group in the survey, with 47% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2014\/10\/21\/pew-determines-conservatives-watch-fox\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}