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Fox News viewers paid $15/hour to watch CNN changed their views after 30 days

9 points by killjoywashere 5y ago

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car_analogy 5y ago
I wonder how both FOX and CNN viewers' views would change after 30 days of reading, say, amren.com
honkdaddy 5y ago
I'm not sure what David Broockman was trying to prove with this study. Consuming partisan propaganda from either side of the aisle will bring you closer to that side? I skimmed through the study[1] and it seems to me that all they confirmed was that watching a news outlet which is the mouthpiece of the Democratic party makes one more sympathetic to the Democratic party. [1]https://osf.io/jrw26/ https://osf.io/jrw26/
colpabar 5y ago
It seems odd that a study meant to examine bias in media and how it affects viewers opinions would only do this switch one way. It also seems like maybe the participants are just somewhat gullible. CNN and FOX are both terrible and I turn the TV off when I see my parents watching either.
- car_analogy 5y ago
  > It seems odd that a study meant to examine bias in media and how it affects viewers opinions would only do this switch one way. Far from "odd", it is the norm: The authors also submitted different test studies to different peer-review boards. The methodology was identical, and the variable was that the purported findings either went for, or against, the liberal worldview (for example, one found evidence of discrimination against minority groups, and another found evidence of "reverse discrimination" against straight white males). Despite equal methodological strengths, the studies that went against the liberal worldview were criticized and rejected, and those that went with it were not. - https://theweek.com/articles/441474/how-academias-liberal-bias-killing-social-science https://theweek.com/articles/441474/how-academias-liberal-bi...
  - colpabar 5y ago
    >"reverse discrimination" I still can't believe this is a real phrase people use. Wouldn't this just mean not discriminating?

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car_analogy 5y ago

I wonder how both FOX and CNN viewers' views would change after 30 days of reading, say, amren.com

honkdaddy 5y ago

I'm not sure what David Broockman was trying to prove with this study. Consuming partisan propaganda from either side of the aisle will bring you closer to that side? I skimmed through the study[1] and it seems to me that all they confirmed was that watching a news outlet which is the mouthpiece of the Democratic party makes one more sympathetic to the Democratic party. [1]https://osf.io/jrw26/ https://osf.io/jrw26/

colpabar 5y ago

It seems odd that a study meant to examine bias in media and how it affects viewers opinions would only do this switch one way. It also seems like maybe the participants are just somewhat gullible. CNN and FOX are both terrible and I turn the TV off when I see my parents watching either.

car_analogy 5y ago
> It seems odd that a study meant to examine bias in media and how it affects viewers opinions would only do this switch one way. Far from "odd", it is the norm: The authors also submitted different test studies to different peer-review boards. The methodology was identical, and the variable was that the purported findings either went for, or against, the liberal worldview (for example, one found evidence of discrimination against minority groups, and another found evidence of "reverse discrimination" against straight white males). Despite equal methodological strengths, the studies that went against the liberal worldview were criticized and rejected, and those that went with it were not. - https://theweek.com/articles/441474/how-academias-liberal-bias-killing-social-science https://theweek.com/articles/441474/how-academias-liberal-bi...
- colpabar 5y ago
  >"reverse discrimination" I still can't believe this is a real phrase people use. Wouldn't this just mean not discriminating?