Re:Attention Grabbing Headlines Are Hurting Journalism
by tptacek on Saturday February 28, 2015 @12:04PM
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I found studies showing that television in lieu of newspapers correlates negatively --- but that's a direct comparison between people who read the paper and watch news. The same studies showed little or no effect versus people that didn't consume the news at all.
My search was cursory (I was just surprised by your claim and checked it), but (a) the results appears to point in the opposite direction to your claim and (b) sort of misses the point of the 'tzs parent comment.
As I recall, in those golden days of the media past, there were numerous studies that showed, both for TV and radio, news consumption was negatively correlated with knowledge of current events.
> Comparing my recollection of those days to what I see now in others, and to how well I feel I am personally informed on the current events of our times, the impression I get as that we were better informed back then.
The impression I get is that people probably felt better informed back then. But probably weren't.
OTOH, because there were fewer, more standard vehicles, and they were very much integrated into peoples daily lives, the false impression of being informed that people had was probably strongly reinforced because what was being delivered (whether actually informative or not) was a lot more consistent person to person.